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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1781 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A001</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Agents, gangs in visas for sale scam Border Force faces claims By Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Crime syndicates and people smugglers are involved in widespread rorting of Australia's programs for working and student visas, according to whistleblowers and a former top immigration official. The claims come as the Australian Border Force is facing more than 100 allegations of corruption, including suggestions that some immigration officers may be supporting the rorting, a <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> and ABC 7.30 investigation can reveal. Border Force chief Michael Pezzullo has referred 132 cases of alleged corruption involving immigration officers to the under- resourced federal law enforcement watchdog in the past 12 months, more referrals than the watchdog has received in any year since its creation in 2006. The revelations point to a failure to deal with endemic crime in Australia's visa system involving some licensed migration agents and education providers, and a thriving cash-for-visa black market. A former Immigration Department investigations head has alleged "fearmongering" on refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers has been used to deflect attention from the real problems in the immigration system. Joseph Petyanszki, who jointly headed the department's investigation office between 2007 and 2013, said the department had ignored tens of thousands of cases of rorting perpetrated by migration agents and dodgy employers who game the student and work visa systems to allow foreigners to pay for entry.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Petyanszki's investigators uncovered thousands of fraudulent visa applicants in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia. In most cases, no charges were ever brought. The investigators identified one major corruption case inside the department involving an officer who subsequently fled overseas. Mr Petyanszki called for a major overhaul in the fight against migration crime. "In the border security debate, it has been easy to deflect the public's attention to <b>boat</b> arrivals. But this fearmongering has totally ignored where the vast bulk of real fraud is most significantly undermining our immigration programs," he said. The <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>-7.30 investigation includes interviews with two whistleblowers, and a covertly filmed sting, which captures a fixer saying that for $50,000 in cash per foreigner, his syndicate can create phantom jobs and visa sponsorship. The revelations suggest corruption infects every level of the visa supply chain - migration agents, employers who sponsor workers, education providers and immigration officials. There is little effective deterrence for perpetrators. In a follow-up report on Tuesday, Fairfax and 7.30 will reveal how organised criminals are infiltrating the border security system, along with claims that the existing watchdog, the small <span class="companylink">Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity</span>, is badly outgunned. The large number of immigration corruption allegations referred to the commission has prompted</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From Page 1</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">senator Nick Xenophon to call for Australia's anti-corruption measures to undergo major reform. "It's worse than a toothless chihuahua. At least a chihuahua tries to bite," Senator Xenophon said of the law enforcement integrity commission. The comments are likely to be backed by several independent senators and the Greens, who are pushing for a national Independent Commission Against Corruption. However, government sources defend the existing integrity commission, saying that even though it is under- resourced, it has helped uncover major corruption and driven vital reforms. Mr Petyanszki's concerns are supported by serving immigration and security officials who, speaking confidentially, say organised crime figures are among those rorting the visa system to set up criminal enterprises in Australia. These include prostitution rackets, drug importation networks and financial crime enterprises. In claims also backed by serving officials, Mr Petyanszki said the overwhelming focus by both major parties on stopping <b>asylum</b> seeker boats reaching Australia had enabled endemic visa rorting by those arriving by plane: "There remain major flaws in the integrity management of our immigration programs, including a major lack of resources." A departmental spokesman said the Border Force had spent 12 months ramping up its attack on visa and migration fraud. "The department's activities are focused on defeating visa fraud at the systemic level, including investigating and prosecuting networks involved in criminally exploiting Australia's visa regime," the spokesman said. He cautioned that many of the 132corruption allegations had not been verified and some involved allegations about people who falsely claimed to be Border Force staff. However, two whistleblowers have revealed their personal experiences, claiming the policing of migration crime is woeful. Indian community leader Jasvinder Sidhu said he was aware of dozens of cases in which Indian nationals had paid crooked fixers sums of up to $80,000 to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">get visa sponsorship for jobs that did not exist, or for education courses that the applicant never attended. A fixer subsequently filmed by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> and 7.30 claimed he was unable to keep up with demand for the corrupt services offered by his Korean boss, who is a migration agent operating in Sydney and Melbourne. Indian nationals who have paid unscrupulous bosses to sponsor them have, according to Mr Sidhu, been exploited or, in some cases, sexually assaulted by their employer. They do not complain to police for fear of losing their visas. A second whistleblower, Queensland project manager Clint Raven, has revealed he was a key witness for the Immigration Department in its investigation into his former employer, contractor Murphy Pipe and Civil, which works on several major Australian infrastructure projects. The company is accused of sponsoring dozens of unskilled foreign workers to obtain skilled visas, at the expense of local workers. Fairfax Media first revealed the allegations about Murphy Pipe and Civil in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014, leading to raids on the business by the Immigration Department and denials of wrongdoing by the company. Mr Raven has revealed he provided sworn testimony to the department about "blatant" visa rorting - which he described as "people smuggling" - but said the case was hand-balled between investigators who appeared unwilling to conduct in-depth investigations and prosecutors. Despite evidence of potentially criminal breaches, Murphy Pipe and Civil has been fined just $3500, and in December was banned from sponsoring more workers for four years. "I can see why people don't speak up," Mr Raven said "I feel like I have been given no support or no encouragement ... These people aren't just here to work, they are here to get permanent residency, which is something many of them have gained." Murphy Pipe and Civil has denied rorting the visa system and said it was appealing the ban on sponsoring more foreign workers as it "is wholly unreasonable". + Watch ABC's 7.30 program tonight for more. Part two of our inquiry will appear in <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> tomorrow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">senator Nick Xenophon to call for Australia's anti-corruption measures to undergo major reform. "It's worse than a toothless chihuahua. At least a chihuahua tries to bite," Senator Xenophon said of the law enforcement integrity commission. The comments are likely to be backed by several independent senators and the Greens, who are pushing for a national Independent Commission Against Corruption. However, government sources defend the existing integrity commission, saying that even though it is under- resourced, it has helped uncover major corruption and driven vital reforms. Mr Petyanszki's concerns are supported by serving immigration and security officials who, speaking confidentially, say organised crime figures are among those rorting the visa system to set up criminal enterprises in Australia. These include prostitution rackets, drug importation networks and financial crime enterprises. In claims also backed by serving officials, Mr Petyanszki said the overwhelming focus by both major parties on stopping <b>asylum</b> seeker boats reaching Australia had enabled endemic visa rorting by those arriving by plane: "There remain major flaws in the integrity management of our immigration programs, including a major lack of resources." A departmental spokesman said the Border Force had spent 12 months ramping up its attack on visa and migration fraud. "The department's activities are focused on defeating visa fraud at the systemic level, including investigating and prosecuting networks involved in criminally exploiting Australia's visa regime," the spokesman said. He cautioned that many of the 132corruption allegations had not been verified and some involved allegations about people who falsely claimed to be Border Force staff. However, two whistleblowers have revealed their personal experiences, claiming the policing of migration crime is woeful. Indian community leader Jasvinder Sidhu said he was aware of dozens of cases in which Indian nationals had paid crooked fixers sums of up to $80,000 to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">get visa sponsorship for jobs that did not exist, or for education courses that the applicant never attended. A fixer subsequently filmed by <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> and 7.30 claimed he was unable to keep up with demand for the corrupt services offered by his Korean boss, who is a migration agent operating in Sydney and Melbourne. Indian nationals who have paid unscrupulous bosses to sponsor them have, according to Mr Sidhu, been exploited or, in some cases, sexually assaulted by their employer. They do not complain to police for fear of losing their visas. A second whistleblower, Queensland project manager Clint Raven, has revealed he was a key witness for the Immigration Department in its investigation into his former employer, contractor Murphy Pipe and Civil, which works on several major Australian infrastructure projects. The company is accused of sponsoring dozens of unskilled foreign workers to obtain skilled visas, at the expense of local workers. Fairfax Media first revealed the allegations about Murphy Pipe and Civil in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2014, leading to raids on the business by the Immigration Department and denials of wrongdoing by the company. Mr Raven has revealed he provided sworn testimony to the department about "blatant" visa rorting - which he described as "people smuggling" - but said the case was hand-balled between investigators who appeared unwilling to conduct in-depth investigations and prosecutors. Despite evidence of potentially criminal breaches, Murphy Pipe and Civil has been fined just $3500, and in December was banned from sponsoring more workers for four years. "I can see why people don't speak up," Mr Raven said "I feel like I have been given no support or no encouragement ... These people aren't just here to work, they are here to get permanent residency, which is something many of them have gained." Murphy Pipe and Civil has denied rorting the visa system and said it was appealing the ban on sponsoring more foreign workers as it "is wholly unreasonable". + Watch ABC's 7.30 program tonight for more. Part two of our inquiry will appear in <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> tomorrow.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Confessions of an immigration officer</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOSEPH PETYANSZKI. Joseph Petyanszki managed the immigration department's investigations area in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia between 2007 and 2013. He worked at the department for 27 years. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>782 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not many jobs have the potential to impact on people's lives, and those of their children and grandchildren, in such a profound way as that of the immigration officer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This struck me most powerfully in the early 1990s in the Sudanese <b>refugee</b> camps of Wadi Sherifa and Gedaref, where hundreds of thousands of Eritrean, Ethiopian and Moro people existed in a bleak, unyielding limbo. While interviewing refugees for resettlement to Australia, I met an Australian of Eritrean origin who was scouring the camps for his mother and siblings. This man told me he could not understand how I could do my job knowing that probably one in every four families I rejected would have a family member die in the next 12 months.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The comment stunned me. And it stayed with me for the rest of my career as an Australian immigration officer. It is a comment worth bearing in mind during this election campaign, as the politics about border security and immigration threatens to trump the truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has repeatedly used <b>boat</b> arrivals and refugees to attack the opposition and instil fear in the electorate. The issue of people arriving by <b>boat</b> and claiming to be refugees has become the major border security issue. In this debate, <b>boat</b> arrivals are synonymous with fraud, perpetuating the belief that anyone arriving by <b>boat</b> is not only not a <b>refugee</b>, but possibly a criminal or security threat.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rebranding of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as the Australian Border Force has risked worsening this dishonest debate. Inside the department, this change has risked shifting a culture from one that values the facilitation of entry into Australia based on firm but fair assessments, to one that embraces a more paramilitary, hostile world view. This is partly what has led to a huge exodus of senior, experienced staff from the department.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This loss of experienced staff has depleted the department's ability to fight the nation's real fraud problem: those who are rorting our skilled and student immigration schemes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is true that some <b>boat</b> arrivals are not genuine refugees, unlike the millions languishing in <b>refugee</b> camps who can't afford to travel to Indonesia and find a place on a <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But many more fraudsters are arriving by plane. They enter the community with ease, rather than being sent to an offshore detention centre as virtual prisoners with nowhere to go.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For eight years, until 2013, I managed the investigations branch of the department of immigration (DIAC) in Victoria. Investigations by my staff revealed massive fraud within our Student, Skilled Migration, 457 programs. Some investigations revealed thousands of skilled migrant applicants had lodged bogus qualifications from private colleges (funded by the Australian taxpayer) and in some cases excellent counterfeit degrees from our most prestigious Victorian universities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many private colleges entered false information about student attendance (students were not required to attend classes as most worked full-time), and for extra under-the-table payment, students were provided with a qualification that was used to apply for permanent residence as a skilled migrant applicant. These practices are still occurring today.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The immigration officials who run the department from Canberra have struggled to cope with such a massive attack on the integrity of its programs. The department dithered over the recommendations to address this fraud. Endless meetings were called. All the while, most migration fraud went unanswered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the potentially thousands of applicants who committed fraud, probably only a few hundred had their visas cancelled. Using smart lawyers and migration agents, many of those who were meant to be deported found loopholes in the law and remained in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Discussing immigration fraud cannot be done without mentioning the significant number of migration agents who assist, perpetuate and make massive money from fraud. Investigations identified many agents involved in this fraud, but very few actually faced court or disbarment by the migration agents board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some shonky migration agents made millions and, as we sought to charge them, fled overseas. All that was left behind were expensive houses and cars.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the border security debate, it has been easy to deflect the public's attention to <b>boat</b> arrivals. But this fearmongering has totally ignored where the vast bulk of real fraud is most significantly undermining our immigration programs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Joseph Petyanszki managed the immigration department's investigations area in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia between 2007 and 2013. He worked at the department for 27 years.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull ramps up his 'trust me' pitch</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>730 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor's Medicare scare campaign has invited the Coalition to frame the last week of this campaign as a matter of trust, and Malcolm Turnbull has grabbed that opportunity with gusto.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition campaign launch on Sunday focused on who voters could trust to control immigration, stop union thuggery and, above all, manage the economy in uncertain times.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There has never been a more exciting time to be an Australian," Mr Turnbull said. "But only if your optimism and confidence is matched with a clear-eyed understanding of what makes the economy work, what makes businesses invest and hire, and an ability to see the world as it is, not how you would like it to be."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull tried to appear statesmanlike, pitching to the broader electorate, counselling them not to "roll the dice" on anyone other than Coalition candidates in both houses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By contrast, Mr Shorten's launch a week earlier targeted Labor's true believers who wanted social progress and spending prioritised on schools and hospitals. Opinion polls and <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>'s YourVote survey show people prefer Labor on those issues as well as the national broadband network and climate. Yet at the Labor launch, Mr Shorten's 100 positive policies played second fiddle to his claim that voters could not trust the Coalition on Medicare privatisation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That claim threatens to overshadow his team's economic case, which is backed up by independently scrutinised costings released on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Herald has supported most of Labor's economic plan, with the caveat that some company tax cuts should have been considered. We recognise that the government includes "zombie" measures to make its figures look better. And Labor has better structural reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax that help the budget in the longer term.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The government won't show you their 10-year figures because they won't add up," shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said on Sunday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor is struggling to reassure voters on the economy. One reason is that Labor deficits will be higher than the forecast Coalition ones for the next three years. And despite Labor's strong record during the global financial crisis in 2008-09, voters tend to trust the Coalition with the economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull is playing that to his advantage. Still, his invocation of economic uncertainty from the Brexit vote was over-egging the case. His use of Margaret Thatcher's "expect the unexpected" line about the likely effects of the "shockwave" were similarly designed to scare voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his pitch on stability, Mr Turnbull railed against any Labor-Greens-independent alliance, even though he had to avoid mentioning the social issues that divided his supporters from that of his predecessor, Tony Abbott. The former prime minister looked testy as Mr Turnbull pleaded for a strong mandate, one that would allow him to lead the Liberal Party towards the social centre.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Turnbull went to great lengths to show the right he would maintain the Coalition's tough <b>refugee</b> policy. The 700 days without a successful <b>boat</b> arrival allowed him to boast there were now no children in immigration detention. Perhaps the most telling message was that Mr Shorten personally could not be trusted. The Labor leader had done "special deals for his union mates" and "Labor and the Greens will fight tooth and nail to protect their paymasters".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Above all, Mr Turnbull claimed unions were "preying" on older Australians by ringing them to further the Medicare scare: "Labor has put a lie at the heart of its campaign. That's not an alternative government, that's an opposition unfit to govern."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier, Liberal deputy Julie Bishop targeted Mr Shorten's integrity, reminding voters of his testimony at the trade unions royal commission, the "cosy deal" with the Transport Workers Union on truck safety, and the union movement's attempts to control volunteer fire-fighters in Victoria. He did not have "the moral fibre" to be prime minister, she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten entered this campaign with positive policies. He has exceeded most expectations. But the Medicare scare and Labor's union links raise questions of trust. Had Mr Abbott still been Coalition leader, it would be a roughly equal problem for both sides. Mr Turnbull, though, is driving home what he sees as his personal advantage over Mr Shorten.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Australia – a nation built by migrants that hates migrants</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter Goers </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>684 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>64</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PETER Drew is a virtuoso street artist. He’s our Banksy. His posters – all over Adelaide – are simple, direct, political and affirming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are vintage photos of Asians and an Afghan cameleer. We brought in Afghans when we needed them to open up our vast country and to roll out telegraph and railway lines – and then we went back to hating them.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Afghans flee our common enemy in war and seek refuge in Australia, we send them to foreign concentration camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Drew’s posters all feature the word “Aussie”. There are three of his posters in Field St, opposite Chinatown – two Asians and an Afghan proud in his turban. The Afghan has been defaced with graffiti by an illiterate racist: “Australia well be all Mulsim soon. You obey us soon or later your weman will bow to us mens they are lower spices weman.” This illiterate, racist fool would be shameful if they didn’t speak for millions of people in this country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only good thing about the current appalling Islamophobia is that it has given the Asians a rest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the ’90s, the racist wackos who helped constantly elect the Howard government hated Asians. Remember when Adelaide was littered with National Action posters saying “Asians Out”? Now Muslims are being reviled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why must we always hate? Each wave of immigrants/refugees is loathed, treated with great suspicion. It’s our national condition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet we are entirely comprised of immigrants and refugees. Every single person in Australia is either an immigrant/<b>refugee</b> or descended from them. Even indigenous Australians came here from somewhere else 40,000-plus years ago. I’m descended from Germans fleeing religious persecution in the 1830s and Irish refugees from the British genocide of the Irish Famine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When we hate refugees, we hate ourselves. All refugees and immigrants seek a better life. That’s no crime.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the great recommendations for Australia is that we are warmed and affirmed by the welcome shown to Hieu Van Le as a Vietnamese <b>refugee</b>. We love his story because it speaks to our true and better nature.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is now one of the most-loved South Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is a <b>refugee</b>. A <b>boat</b> person. An illegal. Our Governor. And if he’d arrived recently, he’d have been sent to a concentration camp on Manus Island or Nauru and we would never benefit from his vast talent and humanity. We are one of the richest nations on Earth. We proudly sing in our national anthem: “For those who come across the sea/We’ve boundless plains to share”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should sing: “For those who come across the sea, we despise you, we’re not going to recognise your internationally agreed human rights as refugees and we’re sending you to foreign concentration camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And we’re going to pay other countries and multinational security firms billions of dollars to keep you in hell, to keep you hopeless, stateless, suicidal, forgotten and insist that you and your children who are dirty, filthy scum opportunists never come to this country to take our jobs and welfare. And if you are bashed or abused or murdered, you have no recourse to Australian law and we really hope you die.” That’s the policy on which Australian governments have been elected over the past two decades. Offshore detention means out of sight, out of mind.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If these refugees were white Christians fleeing persecution or war in Africa, do you think they’d be sent away?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pauline Hanson feared Australia being swamped by Asians in 1996. Now she fears Muslims. “No more mosques, halal certification or Muslim refugees,” scream her posters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She even wants a royal commission into the noble faith of Islam. The major parties are no better. They gloat about our harsh treatment of refugees. They want us to fear refugees because fear equals votes. Stop the gloats or we will stop the votes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter Goers can be heard weeknights on 891 ABC PETER.GOERS@NEWS.COM.AU@busbygoers</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Clark </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1759 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Comment</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The shock UK Brexit referendum decision to leave the <span class="companylink">EU</span> is likely to lead to a local row over globalisation in the final days of the current Australian election campaign and throw voting predictions into disarray.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Post-Brexit vote panic and confusion in the markets are likely to hasten an emerging local policy re-alignment as tribal loyalties fragment further and new groupings undermine the Australian two-party model.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Behind shopworn mantras of "jobs and growth" and "fairness," and attacks over Medicare and <b>refugee asylum boat</b> arrivals, the Australian electorate is being sucked inexorably into a rowdy debate about the future of globalisation that has been brewing since the Global Finance Crisis in 2008.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An emerging anti-globalisation arc in the Anglosphere takes in presumptive Republican nominee for the US Presidency Donald Trump and the successful pro-Brexit campaign in the UK which has dramatically split the ruling Conservative Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The decisive 52-48 Brexit referendum result could even call into question the future of the United Kingdom. Scotland and Wales voted in the Brexit referendum to remain in the <span class="companylink">EU</span> . Such a regional voting pattern could trigger calls for a fresh independence referendum in Scotland, according to Nicola Sturgeon , leader of the Scottish Independence Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an Australia entering the last week of an election campaign, this anti-globalisation movement has echoes in Nick Xenophon's rising NXT Party, plus the Greens, and even, unofficially, sections of the ALP and the National Party.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This largely unheralded shift could presage an Australian election night of unforeseen swings, and a stronger showing by the Greens plus new kid on the electoral block NXT, than forecast so far in the polls. These will further complicate the calculation of likely preference allocation, making forecasts of the ultimate result more risky.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both the Greens and NXT occupy anti-globalisation positions, albeit from the left and the centre, whereas the Coalition is broadly pro-globalisation. The ALP still leans that way, although it also flirts with an emerging anti-globalisation "other side".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Despite this global turmoil, pundits, professional poll analysts, psephologists and Party operatives still largely stick to a forecast of a small-to-comfortable Coalition win. Opinion polls have been tight for seven weeks, but a Labor Party still recovering from the turmoil of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years just doesn't have the "ammo" or "gas in the tank" to win enough government-held seats, they believe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Whatever the final result, voters face a perfect storm of global confusion and panic in the last week of campaigning. The July 2 Australian election is sandwiched between the June 23 Brexit referendum in the UK and the July 18 Republican Party Convention in the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the UK, the electorate has voted to leave the <span class="companylink">European Union</span> after 43 years of membership of a 28-member body officially wedded to "ever closer union".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The problem for Australia in any new international crisis resulting from the Brexit vote is that it is exposed. Both major parties' fiscal policies, which do not anticipate lifting Australia out of deficit spending until 2021, increase our vulnerability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ballooning debt and fiscal lassitude, plus finance markets ructions resulting from the Brexit referendum, could be tested soon by a possible downgrade in Australia's credit rating from <span class="companylink">Moody's</span> or Standard & Poors.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The immediate impact of the pro-Brexit vote in the UK is that it will be harder for our banks, mining companies and service firms with offices in London to expand into continental Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further, Australian finance markets, with their complex range of formal links and personal ties with The City in London, will be diminished by the rupturing effect that Brexit will have on those UK markets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The longer term demonstration effect of the pro-Brexit vote will also be bad. Apart from a tendency to view the <span class="companylink">EU</span> through the prism of British ambiguity, even hostility, about the European project, there has been a local failure to understand that the negative consequences of a pro-Brexit vote will be worse on the Continent than in the UK.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The rapid rise of right wing populism in France, Holland, Austria, Scandinavia, and Eastern European states like Poland and Hungary in the wake of the <b>refugee</b> crisis and the GFC, threaten to splinter Europe. The impact of Brexit may be even worse in an Eastern Europe suffering from fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian- backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile in the US, and barring some last minute boilover, Donald Trump expects to receive confirmation as the Republican Party candidate for the November presidential election at the July 18 Republican Party Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Employing a populist campaigning style aimed at white lower middle class Americans with shrinking incomes, Mr Trump has threatened to erect a wall on the US-Mexico border, sharply increase tariffs on Chinese imports, tear up global trade agreements and force allies, including, presumably, Australia, to contribute more to defence treaties with America.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Facing this rapidly roiling international scene, the Australian electorate has, on a general, two-party preferred reading of the polls, so far remained solid. Lack of poll movement during the long campaign has been attributed to absence of a killer blow from both sides, lack of inspiring rhetoric from major Party leaders, and emotion-sapping vagueness of campaign mantras like "jobs and growth" and "fairness".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there is another way of approaching this long campaign and its voting denouement. Picture a hill overlooking a battlefield. Observers take their position on the hill, field glasses at the ready, and swap fairly safe forecasts based on past trends about the likely results from what they expect to be a traditional battle. Sure enough, a frenzied battle does ensue. But instead of two armies fighting each other in a binary tussle, other, smaller groups also engage in the conflict, and at times they shift support between the two main sides.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The battle is messy and hard to track because of the remarkable array of new weaponry involved, and the fact that so much of the real action is camouflaged from view. Cries of "jobs and growth, "fairness," "Medicare" and "refugees" ring out, but it's the "globalisation" ensign that is attracting much of the real action.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Casualties are many, and the final victor matches with the observers' forecasts. But observers and combatants alike realise that things will never be the same again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For a start the 2016 election campaign marks the point where social media - <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> , <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> , <span class="companylink">Instagram</span> , You Tube and the like - has become crucial. Social media outlets were active in the 2007 election, and in the 2010 and 2013 campaigns, but this is the first time it has become "first port of call," according to Ariadne Vromen, Professor of Political Sociology at Sydney University.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Vromen points out that there are now 12 million Australians on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> . Political parties are now able to "re-frame issues" through <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> and <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Social media provides this immediate feedback. As soon as major party advertising comes out there's a whole response on <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> . It makes people pay attention to the ads. The recycling of the ad increases its penetration," says Professor Vromen, who is in charge of the Australian arm of a US-UK-Australia study on the impact of social media on politics and new forms of campaigning on-line, which is sponsored by the Spencer Foundation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She cites as examples of social media-increased penetration the lengthy Liberal Party ad featuring Malcolm Turnbull 's personal background, and the tradie ad attacking Labor's planned restrictions on negative gearing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We have seen a lot of this going on in the last two elections. Now it's just kind of first port of call. Social media really helps ordinary citizens." As Professor Vromen says, it gives people "the space to have a say and occasionally make a difference. It was hard to do that before unless you were a part of a business group or a union."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Social media can also give stars with issues a push along as well. Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan became one of the social media highlights of the Brexit referendum results night as she offered a running commentary on the voting.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Vromen, who has written books on "Digital Citizenship and Political Engagement" and "The Networked Young Citizen", says political parties are adapting to this new on-line environment. "The pioneer always was Malcolm Turnbull but he's not faring as well now. In the ALP it's Sam Dastyari but the Greens are doing it very well as well," she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Social media is also responsible for the more fluid nature of party loyalty. This shows up strongly in the current election campaign where polls suggest that up to a quarter of the vote - comprising Greens, NXT and independents - is moving away from the two main parties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In some seats, regions and even states, this non-major-party-vote will be much higher. In South Australia, for example, recent polls suggest the NXT vote is approaching an astonishing 30 per cent of the vote. Translated into election results, this could mean Liberal-held seats like Sturt, Barker and Mayo fall to NXT and it gains four Senators out of 12 in SA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Led by South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, the NXT is projecting as a centre Party, but with a strong protectionist bent. Senator Xenophon is pushing a "buy Australian first" policy in manufacturing, has questioned recent trade deals, and has also raised the issue of tighter controls on foreign investment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Elsewhere, the Greens, which are opposed to de-regulation and open markets, may also secure a vote surge well above 2013 levels, according to polls. The Greens' 2016 result could almost match its record 11.8 per cent of the national vote in 2010. Translated into lower house seats, this means the Greens are in the running in two Labor-held seats in Victoria - Batman and Wills - and could even cause an upset in the Liberal-held seat of Higgins, which has been a jewel in the Liberal Party's electoral crown for decades.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the Senate, the combined Greens, Xenophon-NXT and independents' vote could see up to 20 non-major party members in an upper house chamber of 76. This would make it harder for any Government - Labor or Liberal, but particularly Liberal - to get its legislation through the Upper House.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Post Brexit, the Australian political scene has become more unpredictable, tense, interesting - and dangerous. P</p>
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Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten ramped up their respective scare campaigns as the election dragged into Week 7. Andrew Tillett and Phoebe Wearne joined the leaders on the road. Verdict</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Monday</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fresh from Labor’s campaign launch in Penrith on Sunday, Bill Shorten began the week in Perth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader, in WA for the third time during the campaign, visited Cannington Medical Centre to talk about Medicare and declared Labor was on the hunt for “every vote” in the west.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten was quick out of the blocks to condemn broadcaster and Collingwood president Eddie McGuire’s “joke” about drowning football writer Caroline Wilson, cancelling a radio interview with him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Addressing a Catholic education conference, he pointed out that he was “fighting fit” with 12 days of campaigning to go — a stark contrast to Malcolm Turnbull who was battling the flu.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull campaigned in western Sydney, championing his “city deals” urban development policy but was forced to vow that no part of the Medicare system would be privatised, including its payments system, saying Labor’s attack was the biggest lie of the campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He wrapped up the night with a solo appearance on the ABC’s Q&A program, his first time back on the show since becoming Prime Minister. Tuesday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The PM set aside his campaigning to attend a ceremony marking the end of one of the nation’s longest land rights claims just outside Darwin. The PM returned to campaign mode later at a building site in Darwin to zero in on Labor’s negative gearing policy and also denounced McGuire, saying there was no place for disrespecting women.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After a night at home sleeping in his own bed, Mr Shorten spent the day campaigning under the grey skies of Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He stepped up his Medicare scare campaign at Monash Medical Centre, accusing the PM of misleading voters over his Government’s plans to potentially privatise parts of the healthcare system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was at the hospital that Mr Shorten admitted that Medicare’s back-end payments system needed upgrading. Wednesday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The turn-back of a <b>boat</b> of <b>asylum</b> seekers — the 28th under the Government — gave Mr Turnbull a chance to revive his attack on Labor over border protection. Although the Government usually refuses to talk about “on-water matters”, the PM broke the policy 10 days before polling day to declare with great gusto a <b>boat</b> had been turned around.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it was Treasurer Scott Morrison who sprang the biggest surprise, claiming he and other Christians opposed to same-sex marriage were victims of bigotry in response to Labor’s Senate leader and lesbian Penny Wong who said she feared the homophobia that would be unleashed by the plebiscite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s day got off to a colourful start, as he ran the gauntlet of Sydney’s shameless FM radio breakfast shows.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During a game of Never Have I Ever with KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O, the Opposition Leader admitted to having been to a strip club “once or twice” during his university days, but claimed to have left after he realised what it was.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Medicare was the focus again at Victoria Tower Medical in the seat of Reid, where a battle of the billboards outside was evidence of the tight contest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With a Liberal campaign advertisement being mocked for using a “fake tradie”, Labor rolled out its own “real tradie”, who lost his house as a result of bad financial advice, as part of Labor’s push for a royal commission into the banking industry. Thursday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The tight fight in Cowan was highlighted with Justice Minister Michael Keenan suggesting that Labor’s star candidate, Islamic de-radicalisation expert Anne Aly, was soft on terrorism but Mr Shorten hit back accusing the Government of smearing her.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten spent much of the day in Adelaide, including speaking to rail workers in frontbencher Kate Ellis’ seat, which has become vulnerable in recent days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He did his first campaign interview on the ABC’s 7.30 program but when challenged by host Leigh Sales to “put your hand on your heart” and say the coalition would privatise Medicare, Mr Shorten demurred.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Campaigning in the marginal seat of Corangamite, Mr Turnbull promised to make laws protecting volunteer organisations from union takeovers his first legislative priority when Parliament resumes. Friday</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten’s scare campaign on Medicare was blunted when he conceded the Government would not privatise the health system. Nevertheless he insisted he was “not going to let the PM off the hook” over health as he campaigned in Darwin and then Cairns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As he blitzed Tasmanian marginal seats, Mr Turnbull said Mr Shorten’s admission on Medicare showed he had “been caught out lying”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On gay marriage, Mr Turnbull signalled that the result of the plebiscite would not be binding on coalition MPs but he expected opponents like Mr Morrison would “abide by the decision of the Australian people”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the shock outcome of the Brexit vote came to overshadow the day, with the PM making it part of his plea for stability. Verdict</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor won the week thanks to its “Mediscare” campaign. Yes, it was overblown for Labor to accuse the Government of planning to privatise Medicare but the fact Mr Turnbull spent so much time having to beat back the notion showed how much the claim was biting among voters. Just as the coalition gets the advantage when the public debate is about boats, it is on Labor’s turf when the conversation shifts to health. The fallout from Britain’s decision to leave the <span class="companylink">European Union</span>, though, will give Mr Turnbull the chance to go on the economic offensive. With both parties ramping up their scare campaigns, and as the attack on Dr Aly shows, the stage is set for a nasty final week before polling day.</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They’ve come clutching documents and photos and a crazy hope that their relatives are still alive. These Sri Lankans have had no word for four years. They’ve travelled from a <b>refugee</b> camp in the southeast Indian state of Tamil Nadu, hours on a second-class bus, to the state capital of Chennai, and then waited some more. They’ve come to see me because I am part of their tragic fantasy. They think I can help.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My husband, Haridas,” says Yasothinai, 35, “he is being held in an Australian camp, on Nauru or Manus, somewhere. I know.” Haridas left from India on a <b>boat</b> for Australia on July 18, 2012. How do you know? “Because an astrologist told me so.” Haridas has not phoned home or made contact with his family, nor has anyone else who was on that <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thiruchevalam, 49, a day ­labourer, has chewed his nails to the quick with worry. His son Dhanashan, 26, set sail on August 28, 2012. Dhanashan was born a <b>refugee</b>. He’d never stepped foot in Sri Lanka, just across the thin Gulf of Mannar that separates the two countries. The father lives with the guilt that he encouraged his son to go, for a better life. He shows me a photo, taken on Manus Island by journalist Eoin Blackwell, that has appeared on various news sites. The faces have been blurred but he is sure one of the men in the photo is his son. I promise to contact Blackwell, to try to get the original image, but if nobody else on the <b>boat</b> made it, how could Dhanashan have miraculously survived?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Subasini, 48, had a son, Umadharshan, 23, and a nephew on that <b>boat</b>. Subasini’s husband is a drinker and the last phone call they got from their son was at 2.30am, a few hours after the <b>boat</b> had left. “He said to my husband that he should stop drinking, that we should stop fighting and that he should not beat me any more,” Subasini tells me.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She could hear the sound of the <b>boat</b>’s engine chugging in the background. He’s alive, she insists, in Australia or on Manus or Christmas Island — her caring son just hasn’t been able to call yet. Neither has Christu Raja, 36, contacted his wife, Subathni, since he left on that fateful August day four years ago. “Ours was a love marriage, not arranged,” she says, as if this will help with their reunion. Then she bursts into tears.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sadly, it would appear all of them are now dead, drowned at sea. The stories of these families are harrowing. It would take a hard heart not to be moved by them. But the sons and husbands of these grieving families were not genuine refugees. They were not fleeing imminent danger or persecution — they were living poorly, but peacefully, in India. They’d been welcomed by the Tamils in India. The same goes for the boatload of Sri Lankans Tamils who washed up on the shore of Aceh this week, sparking a debate about boats, again, in the lead-up to an election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ones who left from India had no real chance of being assessed as refugees. And, with the improved political situation in Sri Lanka, <b>refugee</b> advocates say, the Tamils from Sri Lanka would have needed very solid evidence to prove they had been in imminent danger. So despite politicians trying to make mileage out of it, one way or another, properly screened, few of these Sri Lankans are likely to have set foot in Australia, regardless of who wins the ­election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since 2009, <b>refugee</b> groups in India and Sri Lanka, who monitor this issue closely, estimate that more than 500 people have died attempting to reach Australia. More than half of them were Sri Lankans living in India.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The real villains here are the people-smugglers. SC Chandrahasan, a respected <b>refugee</b> advocate, tells Inquirer that Indian criminal gangs control the trade. They had moved into this field, from drugs and other crimes, because if they are caught there are no real consequences. They often use former <span class="companylink">Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam</span> soldiers known as the Sea Tigers, he says, who were trained to ferry goods and arms between India and Sri Lanka during the long civil war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These former Sea Tigers, excellent seamen, often pilot the vessels that are sent to Australia, he says. They also have the loyalty of many Tamils, as they were seen as Tamil protectors during the civil war. The Tigers survived for so long because they were well organised, they were ruthless and secrecy was brutally enforced.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The recent operation to get the 41 <b>asylum</b>-seekers to Aceh appeared to have been organised by former Sea Tigers, Chandrahasan says. It was meticulously planned. First, the people-smugglers had to convince the Tamils in India and Sri Lanka to hand over their cash — $3000 upfront, then a further $7000 to be paid off over time if they reached Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To do this, Chandrahasan says, they have agents in Australia, Sri Lankans who’ve made it. The people-smugglers pay these agents to speak to the would-be <b>asylum</b>-seekers and tell them how much money they are earning and how good life is in Australia. The wage of a kitchen hand in Australia is an enormous figure when converted to Indian rupees. Many of the Sri Lankans in the camps are day ­labourers, earning about $200 a month.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The people-smugglers had been in the camps, spreading ­rumours that a change of government in Australia would lead to a change of policy. This was ­re­inforced by their agents in Australia. The people-smugglers will use any chance they can to spread ­rumours to get business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For example, when there was a change of prime minister from (Tony) ­Abbott to (Malcolm) Turnbull, immediately the people-smugglers were spreading news in the camps that things would be better under the new leader,” says Chandrahasan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On April 28, 38 people went missing from a camp in the west of Tamil Nadu state. For five weeks they were held in a secret location and nothing was heard of them. It’s now known that the smuggling gang took all their phones and hid the Tamils on a construction site near Chennai.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For many weeks there had been very few boats off the coast of Tamil Nadu as a fishing ban had been in force as part of a government attempt to rebuild fish stocks. The ban was lifted on June 1.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That night the people-smugglers put the <b>asylum</b>-seekers on to two buses and took them to the coast where a stolen <b>boat</b> was waiting for them. However, one of the buses was stopped at a police checkpoint. The police became suspicious when the people started giving conflicting accounts as to what they were doing. Some were ­apprehended and some fled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other bus had already made it through the checkpoint and those people were loaded on to the <b>boat</b>. It is believed the <b>boat</b> then set sail for Sri Lanka, where it picked up more passengers. (The Australian originally was told, and reported, that a second <b>boat</b> was apprehended off the coast of India at around this time. This appears to be incorrect).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was suspicion, too, that another <b>boat</b> trip was being planned as a Sri Lankan <b>refugee</b> in one of the camps had gone missing. He had phoned relatives in Australia telling them he was planning to get on a <b>boat</b>. These relatives had contacted ­Indian authorities in an attempt to stop him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chandrahasan, 74, is a gentlemanly Sri Lankan lawyer, a kind of Gandhian figure who has spent much of his life fighting for the cause of refugees — lesser men than he have worn a Nobel. Since he fled Sri Lanka in 1984, he has been pushing peacefully for the rights of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees and, in recent years, encouraging them to return to their homeland. His group, the Organisation for Eelam Tamil Refugees’ Rehabilitation, has the backing of the Australian Council of Churches. Chandrahasan says it was the poorest of the poor who fled to India; anyone with means made it to the West.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What surprises me is that this old human rights campaigner agrees, to a large degree, with Australia’s tough immigration policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says Australia should increase its <b>refugee</b> intake, but he would like to see an orderly process. He has seen too many people die at sea. He has seen people indebted for life, having borrowed a lot of money and having failed repeatedly to make it to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His ­organisation works to discourage people getting on boats. They hold seminars in the camps, warning against it. They produce posters, with photographs of <b>asylum</b>-seekers who’ve been washed into the ocean.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They get cheated by people-smugglers,” he says. “The vast majority of refugees in the camps understand there is no way to Australia and will not do it. But the message gets a little bit garbled with people (agents of the smugglers) coming on the phone and telling them how good life in Australia is.” He tells me that sometimes <b>refugee</b> advocates in Australia make the situation worse by backing people who were not actually refugees. In 2014 a group of 157 <b>asylum</b>-seekers, Tamil Sri Lankans living in India, were taken on to an Australian Customs vessel while attempting to reach Australian waters. Their case, backed by the Human Rights Law Centre, was taken to the High Court, which ruled the Australian government’s operation was legal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Chandrahasan says when it was announced that a High Court challenge had been mounted, the people-smugglers were in the camps boasting that “we have breached Australia’s sovereign borders”. He says if the court’s decision had gone the other way it would have been a disaster as more people would have attempted the journey and more would have drowned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The facility of <b>asylum</b> is something very sacred,” he says. “It must be obeyed. It should be cherished and protected, and it should be honoured by all nations in times of great need. These types of cases just muddy those waters.” <b>Refugee</b> Rights Network South Asia chairman Gladston Xavier, also head of the social sciences department at Chennai’s Loyola College, says he is “disappointed with these people (the Tamils in Aceh). They are killing the chances of real refugees who are in need. If you have a <b>refugee</b> identity card, if you have a right to work, if your life is not threatened, then you are actually taking away the chances of real refugees getting <b>asylum</b>.” Xavier says that if it had been Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar the situation would be different because Australia has an obligation to take them in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If you are a Rohingyan <b>refugee</b>, please take a <b>boat</b> and go because life is so horrible there,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have 74 Rohingyan people who I take care of over here. They can’t speak the language. They are rag pickers. They have no place to stay and they live in abysmal conditions. What does life promise for them in Myanmar? Nothing. They are living in a hellhole. And Australia should accept them; you can’t expect refugees to arrive in a plane with a visa. It is an emer­gency. That is when we need to be more careful.” In the past six years, about 10,000 Tamil refugees have returned from India to Sri Lanka voluntarily; Xavier has been documenting this process. He recently produced a film, No Longer a <b>Refugee</b>, that he plans to show in the <b>refugee</b> camps. It details the experiences of those who have returned. Overall, he says, their experiences have been positive.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Australia wants to stop the flow of boats coming from India, it could help with this process of returning Tamils to Sri Lanka, Xav­ier says. “At the moment we are simply warehousing refugees over here. They need rights.“Those who want to go, let’s help facilitate their return.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten the target of Liberals’ ad attack</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PHILLIP HUDSON </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ADVERTISING</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Liberal Party has launched the first in a series of TV attack ads against Bill Shorten targeting the Labor leader over the cost of his promises, border protection and dealing with the Greens.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the eve of the Liberal campaign launch in Sydney tomorrow, the 15-second commercial features headlines with the words “deficit” and “nightmare” and a picture of an <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b>. It asks: “So what do we know about Bill Shorten? We know he’s got a budget black hole and can’t pay for his promises.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know Labor is still soft on border protection. And we know a Labor-Greens hung parliament means chaos.” Labor has run heavily with an attack on Malcolm Turnbull, calling him “seriously out of touch” in a 30-second commercial that says the Prime Minister wants to “privatise Medicare” despite his guarantee he will not. The Labor ad also criticises Mr Turnbull for cutting health and education funding, talking up a 15 per cent GST and says he will “hurt families”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor campaign director ­George Wright yesterday wrote to supporters saying the opposition was “tantalisingly close to winning this election”, but “we haven’t done enough yet”, as he asked for donations to help pay for more ­advertising.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor also made the surprise announcement it was having a second campaign launch, in Brisbane tomorrow, following its official launch last Sunday in western Sydney. Tomorrow’s event is being promoted as a “save Medicare rally”. “This campaign began as a marathon, it is now a sprint to the finish,” Mr Shorten said.The Liberal Party yesterday ­released a statement from John Howard warning people not to “risk a return to the chaos of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years”.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ALP PLAYS FAST AND LOOSE WITH GRAND OLD MAN’S LEGACY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Peter van Onselen Contributing editor </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bob Hawke tried to institute the policy Labor now uses to smear the Coalition</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scare campaigns by their very nature play on people’s fears. But to be credible they need to have a modicum of truth to them. That’s the problem with Bill Shorten’s claim that the Coalition wants to privatise Medicare.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s complete rubbish yet it appears to be cutting through with voters, partly because voters don’t trust their politicians, so Coalition denials are viewed cynically, and partly because health is a policy weak spot for the Coalition and Labor is trusted on this issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what does it say about modern politics that the alternative prime minister is happy to out-and-out lie about his opponents’ intentions? It shows contempt for the truth, the intelligence of voters and the traditions of political discourse. It’s a new low, even in the lowly world of scare campaign politicking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2010, Labor ran hard on a scare campaign that the Coalition, if elected, might try to return to Work Choices, the industrial relations policy that sank John Howard’s prime ministership in 2007. While the claim also was a false one, it at least drew on a precedent by a government Tony Abbott was part of (even though he argued against Work Choices in cabinet).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Nobody is talking about privatising Medicare and Malcolm Turnbull never has. I don’t even know what doing so would look like. Name me a business or an investor who would seek to buy a part of the health system that costs more than $20 billion to run but has secure revenue streams of only half that amount via the Medicare levy. Throw in that the government sets the payment structure and it would be a bad investment if ever I saw one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier this year Labor mounted a scare campaign on the GST, which was fair enough given the government was looking at changes before ultimately ruling them out. And of course Howard said “never ever” on the GST ahead of the 1996 election before taking consumption tax reform to the 1998 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition also is using scare campaigns, on economic management and boats, to damage Labor. At least there is a track record of Labor having turned a surplus into multiple deficits, alongside a record of <b>refugee boat</b> flows starting and growing when Labor was last in office.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I happen to think the government’s boats scare campaign is overcooked now that Labor has narrowed the policy differences. And how Liberals keep a straight face attacking Labor on the economy speaks to the chutzpah of modern politics. But at least these scare campaigns have some sort of factual foundation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one has ever canvassed privatising Medicare. Once upon a time the Liberals did campaign on abolishing the universal healthcare Medicare provides, but that was more than two decades ago. Since then Howard — at the forefront of attacks on Medicare in the 1980s — did an about-face and ploughed money into the scheme, confirming it was here to stay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don’t get me wrong; Labor has good reason to attack the Coalition in the health policy space. Minister Sussan Ley is an ­underperformer, the now defunct co-payment idea was a broken promise, and freezing the Medicare rebate for six long years surely will put pressure on bulk-billing rates, which (inconveniently for Labor) have increased since the change of government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Equally, effectively forcing fixed rents on GPs who house pathology services at their surgeries via how payments are structured is unfair and illiberal. Let’s throw in broken promises before the previous election on GP super clinics, shall we?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is plenty to attack the government on in the healthcare space if Labor MPs have the debating skills to mount an argument.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead Labor is using robocalls to voters to mislead about a privatisation agenda that doesn’t exist. The messages even claim that if you get cancer you are likelier to die if the Liberals retain government because of their intention to privatise Medicare. It’s shameless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s not hard to see how Labor came up with its scare campaign. Party research shows voters are worried about healthcare, and it also shows that they don’t much like privatisation. So the clever people at Labor HQ decided to bring the two issues together, even though the concept of privatising Medicare is neither possible nor on anyone’s agenda.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Frankly, it exposes how little they understand about business, or sound investing, which should be concerning to voters as the economy moves away from the mining boom into new areas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even Ian Harper, who oversaw the bipartisan competition policy review, slammed Labor for using a <span class="companylink">Productivity Commission</span> recommendation on outsourcing Medicare services to claim Liberals had a secret privatisation agenda. And the <span class="companylink">Australian Medical Association</span>, which has been a big critic of the government’s handling of health issues, condemned Labor for a false scare campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the ultimate irony, to scuttle Labor’s scare campaign the Prime Minister has quashed any changes to outsourcing of Medicare ser­vices. That (disappointingly) leaves the Coalition more committed to keeping every aspect of Medicare operations in public hands than Labor. During the week opposition health spokeswoman Catherine King confirmed on ABC radio that a Labor government would collaborate with the private sector to update Medicare’s information technology systems. There’s no surprise in that given Chris Bowen got the ball rolling on just such a change in operations when he was human services minister in the Rudd government in 2009.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps the most embarrassing public carping about what Liberals might do to Medicare came from former prime minister Bob Hawke. The one-time great Labor leader participated in a campaign advertisement for the first time since leaving office, warning that Liberals were planning to privatise Medicare.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The grand old man of Labor was used by Team Shorten, which clearly has as little regard for his honour as it does for the way he governed in the 80s and 90s — the politics of envy and attacks on business that have personified Labor’s present election campaign were shunned in the name of historic policy outcomes such as the Accord when Hawke was PM.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But to complete the absurdity of Hawke fronting such an ad, one only has to delve ever so briefly into Hawke’s policy track record on health. His leadership came undone at the hands of Paul Keating when Hawke, realising the fiscal pressures mounting on the health budget, sought to institute a Medicare co-payment. Yes, that’s right, the same policy Labor now uses to claim privatisation of Medicare is what comes next if the Coalition is re-elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Simply put, Shorten is hoping voters are too dumb to call out Labor on its false and disingenuous scare campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter van Onselen is a professor at the University of Western Australia.Labor absolutely dominated the week with its albeit false scare campaign on Medicare. Potentially game changing.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Prime-time hatchet</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ellen Whinnett </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Liberals have finally ­unleashed their attack advertisements on Bill Shorten, ­rolling out a prime-time hit on the Opposition Leader that will screen on TV until the ­advertising blackout on ­Wednesday night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 15-second ads ask ­people what they really know about Mr Shorten, reference a Budget black hole, accuse him of being “soft’’ on border protection and warn he would cause “chaos’’ by doing a deal with the Greens in the event of a minority parliament.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The advertisement includes an unflattering photograph of Mr Shorten, critical newspaper headlines, and a photograph of an apparent <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> being shadowed by a Navy <b>boat</b>.Labor is running ads attacking Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for being “out of touch’’ and accusing him of driving up the cost of visits to the doctor, considering ­raising the GST, and forcing ­university degree costs up to $100,000.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Katie Burgess   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Afghan <b>refugee</b> came by <b>boat</b> for new life in Canberra By Katie Burgess</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mustafa Karimi came to Australia by <b>boat</b> as a 17-year-old and spent years in detention before having his visa approved. Photo: JAMILA TODERAS</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ten days on a rickety <b>boat</b> couldn't extinguish Mustafa Karimi's hope to lead a life without fear. Even as their last drop of water ran out, a hunger burned inside him to be free of the violence that had followed him ever since he could remember. The 23-year-old has shared his story of survival as part of <b>Refugee</b> Week, which this year celebrates the courage of those who've been forced to flee their home country due to persecution. Born in a small Afghan village, Mr Karimi grew up in a city on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Plagued by sectarian war, Mr Karimi was forced to flee his home alone when he was 17. "Too many people got killed in that war. Some of my relatives were also killed and everything was gone, the schools, the houses, the marketplace. I was not seeing any hope about my future there," he said. Bundled onto a <b>boat</b> in Indonesia with 70 other <b>asylum</b> seekers, the three-day journey to Australia their captain promised turned into 10 days adrift on the underpowered, overcrowded vessel. The passengers ate rice for seven days before they ran out of food. On the ninth day they ran out of water. "We had just lost hope of life to be honest. Everyone was just thinking that we were lost in the sea and everyone was waiting for when death would come to them," he said. But on the 10th day the <b>boat</b> was intercepted by an Australian navy vessel and brought to Christmas Island. Mr Karimi said he "felt like a newborn" when he stepped onto Australian soil. "I felt like I was just born with a new life, like God had gifted it to me. It was a really good feeling. Even when I was in Christmas Island I felt like that was OK because I had survived." As an unaccompanied minor, Mr Karimi was placed with a family. He was taught English and swimming lessons by volunteers and treasured the feeling of peace that had been so fleeting in his former life That feeling would not last though. Mr Karimi would spend seven months on the remote island, unable to leave its gated community. "At the beginning it was OK because I was new but when it came to be a long period of time there was a bit of frustration and depression," he said. "You're just surrounded by fences for that long and as a result, being</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">there for a long time, you can't take it you know?" Mr Karimi was medicated for his depression and later moved to the detention centre at Darwin where he awaited the outcome of his visa application. When the Australian government struck it down, his hope began to dim. "I was feeling very sad and hopeless and I was in that shock, like 'when are they going to deport me'," he said. His caseworker advised him to appeal his visa rejection and soon he</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">was moved to a community detention facility in Canberra where he was finally able to attend school. "I was a bit confused about my future because I was rejected and I wasn't taking trust in anything. But I tried to remain strong and taking hope in what next comes," he said. Mr Karimi didn't give up on his studies and was enrolled in a special stream at Dickson College for refugees. He finished his year 12 certificate six months early and enrolled in a community studies course at the Canberra institute of Technology.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He'd done some work experience in social work during his time at Dickson College and quickly found a job in the sector. These days, Mr Karimi helps many vulnerable people in Canberra, including other refugees and the homeless. He said teaching others to stay afloat amid the despair that threatened in Australia's detention centre made him realise he could make a difference. "I'd been in detention for a long time and when I was there I tried to help the case workers when there</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">was conflict or the boys were depressed. "I've experienced these things since my childhood, I've been through the war, I've seen the dead bodies, I've seen the bomb blasters. That actually made me strong and know how do deal with those people who are in need." He was afraid for those who remained in detention indefinitely but urged them to remain strong and keep sight of their dreams. "We came by different boats but [we] are in the same <b>boat</b>," he said. "I feel I have a bright future in Australia."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The art of the negative</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick O'Malley, Senior writer </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1328 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten looked awkward under Leigh Sales' stern gaze as he ducked and parried and prevaricated. Of course he could not put his hand on his heart, as Sales demanded during a blistering interview on ABC's 7.30, and look Australians in the eye and say that the privatisation of Medicare was government policy, because no such policy exists. But Shorten did not back down, he just kept on finding new formulations of words to level the same charge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I can say to the people of Australia that this election and their vote on July 2 will determine the future of Medicare," he said when pressed further.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hours earlier Malcolm Turnbull lobbed into Geelong and did what he could to fan the flames of a long-simmering dispute between the United Firefighters Union and volunteer firefighters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any other time this might have been a garden variety industrial relations barney, but a week from an election in a marginal Liberal seat it was the very end of days.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"You're next in their targets," the Prime Minister warned the volunteers standing before him in heroic yellow firefighting gear. "It's an assault not just on the safety of Victorians ... it is an assault on what is the very best in our Australian spirit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The only way you can ensure you will be protected from this union takeover is to return the Coalition, my government, on July the second."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Don't expect this bitter tone to change in the coming week. If campaigns have seasons this is the winter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the last dark days before the poll it is normal for campaigns to turn negative. By this stage in the cycle the two leaders have developed their key themes and announced their policies. The pork has been doled out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is no point in announcing huge gobs of dough [in the last week], you don't have any time to leverage it," says a Labor strategist, noting that the mandated advertising blackout kicks in on Wednesday night. From here on in it is necessary to damage your opponent as well as make your case, and the most effective way to do that is to exploit existing fears in the electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For Labor then, the Medicare scare campaign is obvious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Turnbull keeps saying, the Coalition has no policy to dismantle Medicare. Indeed in a bid to blunt Labor's attack he has even backed down on a plan to outsource the Medicare payment system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Labor understands that Australia's $22 billion-a-year public health scheme is not only popular - a recent Essential poll found that 81 per cent of respondents considered the privatisation of to be a cause of concern - but that Labor is more trusted to protect it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It is our firm view that they will dismantle Medicare by stealth, it's in their DNA. We are not going to let up on this," says the strategist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tactically the focus on Medicare has the ancillary benefit of shifting the focus of the economy, a point of strength for the Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The strategy appears to be working.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor this week told The Australian Financial Review that it expects to take 12 to 14 seats from the Coalition, winnowing its majority to a bare minimum. "It is hurting them, that's why they have started talking about boats, they have gone back to what they know is a vulnerability for us."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> of the current election cycle slipped over the horizon into the Timor Sea last in mid-June and was soon pressed into campaign service. "Navy intercepts <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> in first test of borders during campaign," a Daily Telegraph headline read last week. Soon the government abandoned its policy of not discussing what it had in the past referred to as "on-water matters".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton held a news conference to reveal that the beginning of Operation Sovereign Borders, 28 boats carrying more than 700 people had been intercepted and turned back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then the PM weighed in.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Now can I turn to another matter that the Immigration Minister has spoken about this morning," he said during a doorstop in Cairns, going over the numbers that Dutton had issued earlier. "The Labor Party has announced that they are going to abolish temporary protection visas," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This will send an absolutely unequivocal signal to the people smugglers that under a Labor government, anyone who manages to get to Australia on a <b>boat</b> will be able to stay here permanently. Imagine the chaos that we would be presented with under a Labor, Greens, independent government? Even now, before the election day, they are abandoning critical elements in our border protection policy."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This quote is key to understanding the Liberal counter-attack. From their perspective, border protection is not only a real concern to many voters in its own right, but it is a useful way to remind them of what the Coalition sees as one of the greatest policy failings of the previous Labor government. To talk about boats is to talk about the sense of chaos of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Soon Shorten was forced to respond to Turnbull, and in doing so he had to defend and articulate a policy that a significant section of his constituency finds abhorrent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Mr Dutton and Mr Turnbull have tried to run a line - on July 3 with a different government there will be a different policy. They should be ashamed of themselves ... I led my party and I said we will turn back boats. We will deter people smugglers."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In previous elections the last days of the campaign have been marked not only by scaremongering, but also by dirty tricks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Three days before the 2007 election the husband of Jackie Kelly, the Liberal member for the key seat of Lindsay got pinged distributing false Labor party pamphlets.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Days before the 1996 election the Labor campaign was derailed by a forged letter purportedly written by Victorian premier Jeff Kennett that suggested that a Liberal government under John Howard would cut grants to the states.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The letter was released by the overenthusiastic Ralph Willis, who resigned his position after Labor's loss.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Wednesday it was reported that Rebekha Sharkie, a candidate for the Nick Xenophon Team for the South Australian seat of Mayo was a member of the <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> group "F--- off we're full", which calls for the restoration of "Aussie culture, barbecues, alcohol and beaches".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked about her apparent membership Sharkie told The Australian, "I have no knowledge of this group. If this group exists and purports to hold the views you have described, then I find this group to be repulsive."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The racist group had only 61 members and its sentiments were well out of line with any public views publicly expressed by Sharkie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he discussed the issue with Fairfax Media Xenophon sounded more tired than angry about it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Mate, I could have you signed up to a group called 'F--- off, we're full' in five minutes flat," he said. "All you need is a fake email address."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says the incident captures the current mood of campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both major parties are threatened by his team, which could conceivably hold the balance of power with the Greens and independents in the new Senate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the final week of the campaign, there are only handful of set pieces left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tomorrow Turnbull will officially launch the Coalition's election campaign with a speech that will focus on the economy - reinforcing the mantra of growth and jobs - and returning to the theme of chaos under Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During the week both parties will release their costings, and both leaders will make their final cases in speeches at the <span class="companylink">National Press Club</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But whatever rhetoric the leaders use to close their case, in marginal seat street fighting the scare campaigns will continue.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Border protection battle is no flimsy scare campaign</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>848 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull is right to highlight Labor’s weakness</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We should not be surprised by audacity in politics but Bill Shorten’s brazen politicking this week has been astonishing. On the one hand he has cranked up a deliberate scare campaign over Medicare that, at best, is based on nothing much and, at worst, relies on utter falsehoods. On the other hand, the Opposition Leader argues that the Coalition should not be highlighting Labor’s appalling record on border protection, weaknesses in its border security policy or dissent within opposition ranks over that policy. Mr Shorten wants to run a concocted scare campaign while running away from one that is based in fact.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull has been accused of desperation by Labor and its fellow travellers for raising the border protection issue strongly this week. “He (Mr Shorten) cannot be trusted on the border,” the Prime Minister said yesterday. “What he is offering is an enormous marketing opportunity to the people-smugglers.” Many Coalition members and supporters will be pleased Mr Turnbull finally has put such a crucial issue front and centre in the campaign. Labor’s dismantling of the Pacific Solution in 2008 — which led to the arrival of 800 boats carrying more than 50,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers during the following four years — arguably was the greatest public policy failure in the nation’s history. It necessitated the establishment and filling to capacity of at least one immigration detention centre in every state, adding costs of more than $10 billion to the federal budget. By reactivating the people-smuggling trade it resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1200 <b>asylum</b>-seekers at sea, including 48 dashed on the rocks of Christmas Island in December 2010. And, importantly, it undermined public confidence in the nation’s immigration system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition’s reimposition of tough border protection measures, including <b>boat</b> turnbacks and temporary protection visas, to successfully halt the arrival of boats into our nation has been a signature achievement. It has put people-smugglers out of business, saved lives, allowed more than a dozen detention centres to be emptied and dismantled, restored the integrity of the immigration system, saved money and allowed for the acceptance of more refugees from overseas, selected on the basis of need rather than by their ability to pay a smuggler. This was achieved under Tony Abbott ’s leadership but it is an obvious Coalition strength that Mr Turnbull should not be afraid to trumpet, just as he should not be shy about pointing out the risks involved in handing this responsibility back to a Labor Party divided on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten claims to have the same border protection policy as the government (an assurance, by the way, that Kevin Rudd offered back in 2007). But there are differences. Labor rejects TPVs, offers permanent residency to 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers still held in community detention and its position on <b>boat</b> turnbacks — endorsed at the ALP national conference only after heated debate and against the wishes of senior frontbenchers — is to allow them only as a possible option. The real doubts about Labor relate to its resolve and its ability to implement tough measures in government, especially given the conference doesn’t bind it to any action. With such a terrible record in office and with roughly half of his MPs on the record as having misgivings about Labor’s policy, many voters will have serious concerns about Labor’s ability to deliver. Then there is the open borders policy of the Greens, who could wield enormous sway over Labor policy in power as they did under Julia Gillard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The implications for this nation of once more surrendering control of maritime arrivals are too horrible to contemplate. So while Mr Shorten wants to shut down this debate — arguing “this matter should be above politics” — Mr Turnbull is not only justified but obliged to raise it. “There are three pillars on which our border protection policy is based,” he said, “and this is what they are: turning boats back, temporary protection visas and offshore processing. Labor has already said that they will abandon, abolish temporary protection visas.”As The Australian has reported, people-smugglers remain eager to test Australia’s mettle. They are ever on the lookout for marketing opportunities and saw even the change of prime minister in September last year as a chance to try their hand. So far they have been thwarted at every turn with 28 boats turned back in the past three years, including one this month. Any decision that can be seen as a weakening in the nation’s resolve or a softening in our processing of <b>asylum</b>-seekers will prompt new efforts from the smugglers. This is the hard reality that means <b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees on Manus Island and Nauru must be resettled elsewhere rather than brought to Australia. Having finally been able to stop the boats, surely there is no one, other than the people-smugglers, who knowingly would seek to restart this dangerous and exploitative trade.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>'Mediscare' delivers poll boost for Labor</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has reported a boost in support from its Medicare scare campaign and now believes it could snatch between 12 and 14 seats from the Coalition if if can sustain the momentum until polling day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the election just nine days away, the Coalition has all but acknowledged the campaign has bitten. It has dumped plans to outsource Medicare's back office operations, rushed out ads featuring Malcolm Turnbull guaranteeing to protect Medicare, and spent the past two days switching the campaign focus to its core strength of stopping <b>asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Senior Labor sources have told The Australian Financial Review that while the orthodox view is that the Coalition will prevail on July 2, Labor was feeling more competitive now than just a few days ago when it was struggling to identify more than 10 seats it could win.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We don't need a miracle to win (but) we need a lot to break our way," said one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Medicare really moved for us." He added that sustaining the momentum through next week was the main challenge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor began the election campaign holding 55 seats and the Coalition 90. If Labor were to take 14 seats, it would reduce the Coalition to 76, the bare majority required to govern in its own right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another senior ALP figure said it was too volatile to predict the final outcome. There were many volatile seats and in some a swing of just 1 percentage point would prove pivotal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's become an arm wrestle," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Threatening both sides in the event of a close contest is the high level of support going to the Nick Xenophon Team in South Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The NXT is threatening both parties, either by taking seats itself or having seats change hands due to preferences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Earlier this week, ABC election expert Anthony Green said Senator Xenophon had "smashed" the two-party system in his home state.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Liberal-held seats in South Australia at risk include Mayo, Barker and Grey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Thursday, Labor leader Bill Shorten campaigned in the seat of Adelaide, held by shadow education minister Kate Ellis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Due to the high NXT vote, internal and public polling shows it at risk of falling to the Liberal Party which last held it in 2004.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Everyone is worried about everything in South Australia," said the senior source.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten used his visit to focus on Senator Xenophon, as much as the Coalition. Labor accuses the NXT of supporting lower weekend penalty rates based on comments of one of its Senate candidates and former Retail Traders Association chief executive officer Stirling Griff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Anyone who wants to come after penalty rates via a legislative mechanism, I will fight them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They will have to come through my Labor candidates and me if they want to go after penalty rates," Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't mind if it's Stirling Griff, the Xenophon candidate, or if it's some standard issue Liberal who's always keen to go after penalty rates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They have to come through Labor if they want to try a legislative means to attack penalty rates."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull stayed on the front foot over boats while continuing to reject Labor's Medicare campaign as a lie.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've seen this film before and so have you," the Prime Minister said when comparing Mr Shorten's assurances over <b>boat</b> people policy to the undertakings give by Kevin Rudd before he won power in 2007.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There will be more boats and more people smuggling. There is no question about that, they test us out," Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"What do you think they'll do to Labor when they know that they have a government whose previous track record was one of weakness."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull was campaigning in Victoria and met <span class="companylink">Country Fire Authority</span> members who are embroiled in a bitter fight with the Victorian Labor government which backs a union takeover.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull has promised to legislate immediately to block the takeover if re-elected. Mr Shorten says the dispute will be resolved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the stoush has proved a disaster for federal Labor in Victoria with most in the ALP now convinced the party will not pick up a single extra seat there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is considerable anger towards Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews and a belief that he may cost Labor the federal election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor will continue its Medicare campaign on Friday by furnishing a response to a Freedom of Information request which the government is seeking tenders for the "commercial provision" of Medicare payments for veterans' medical and prescription benefits.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a clear reason nobody believes Malcolm Turnbull when he says he won't privatise Medicare, he is already selling off important health functions," said shadow health minister Catherine King.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The veterans' community rely on more than $2 billion in medical assistance and more than $425 million in pharmaceutical assistance every year. This would be the approximate value of the contract to a private provider."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Cruising could secure future of our region</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I HAVE just returned from Alaska and have seen first hand the wonderful cruise-liner ports, facilities and onshore tours available for up to six cruise liners docked at one time, with 2000 passengers each.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These small towns put Newcastle to shame.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yes, their harbours are deeper but our cruise-liner terminal is embarrassing and we continue to miss out on showcasing Newcastle and the Hunter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Surely it is our right to have some of the money from the sale of our port used to bring in big tourist dollars to our region-?s economy to perhaps balance the downturn in coal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The state budget has said $30 million from the Hunter Infrastructure and Investment Fund will be allocated to several large projects including the cruise terminal. It certainly wasn-?t obvious how much and when for a new terminal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What was obvious is that Newcastle continues to be ignored.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Our politicians should be aware that we the voting public in the Hunter are becoming increasingly disillusioned with both major parties. Not long now until the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I LIKEN the Turnbull Liberal government-?s NBN to the fiasco with the Tourle Street bridge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the 1970s, a NSW government with vision built a four-lane Stockton bridge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The old two-lane Tourle Street bridge was replaced with a new two-lane bridge in 2009 instead of a four-lane bridge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That turned out to be a disaster with traffic congestion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The NSW government is now back duplicating the Tourle Street bridge at four times the cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?Do it once and do it right-? I heard someone say last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SO, where is Abbott? What have the Libs promised to keep him so quiet and so out of camera range?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fascinating to hear Turnbull-?s hearty statement that -?his government will not privatise Medicare-?.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maybe not, but with Abbott still ghosting around behind the scenes, Libs could be easily de-stabilised, yet again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Any promises made by Turnbull about what his government would do could vanish in a puff of ecto-plasm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MR Turnbull insists Medicare will -?never ever-? be privatised. Shades of, there will -?never ever-? be a GST.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given the fact of Liberal cuts to hospital funding, attempts at introducing GP co-payments so doctors cannot bulk bill and scrapping of rebates on pathology services, I don-?t believe him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Irrespective of what Mathias Cormann says, I believe the Turnbull government has looked at new ways to deliver payments and believe outsourcing Medicare is the key.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The future of Medicare could be just one election away. Is this the legacy that you want to leave your children?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How can you put trust into hollow words given Mr Turnbull-?s previous backtracking on policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Make no mistake; Mr Turnbull is simply treading water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The wrath is yet to come.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If you are a pensioner, an Australian who values your family-?s health care, are unemployed, or even if you are employed and value penalty rates because you work unsociable hours, a student, a member of the community concerned about increases to the GST, then you would be wise not to vote Liberal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We need a government that is compassionate to the majority of Australians and not just a select few.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Think before you number any boxes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Labor Party claim that Medicare will be privatised if the Coalition government is returned must be hitting home because out of the blue we have an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> sailing over the horizon towards our shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been three years since we have been told of such an event. Yes, I saw the footage on the news, but this particular <b>boat</b> did not look any different from one that was turned back three years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maybe it was the same footage used at that time, replayed over again.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">REARDING Neil Pitt (Short Takes, 22/6): One would assume that you have been in some sort of induced coma over the last nine years. In 2007 when the ALP took over from the Coalition government the official federal budget was in a surplus of $10.8 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the end of 2013 after the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd/Gillard circus, the official federal budget was in a deficit of $23.5 billion, a spend-a-thon of some $44.3 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What did they spend all of this on? Failed -?Pink Batts-? scheme, failed lap-top computers for every school child in Australia, failure to identify the correct installation method for the NBN etc, etc.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I am a person who opens both eyes when looking at the facts and all that I can see was a completed financial disaster during 2007 and 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You may well say that the deficit has slipped even further during 2013-2016, I agree, however you must look at all of the underlying facts that contributed to the decline, starting with the mountainous interest repayments that the Coalition has had to contend with courtesy of the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd/Gillard circus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LETTERS commenting on election issues must bear the writer-?s name and full address (only the suburb will be published). Responsibility for election comment in this issue is accepted by the editor, Heath Harrison, 28 Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle. Writers should disclose any alliance with political or community organisations and include a phone number for verification. Election candidates should declare themselves as such when submitting letters.-?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Herald pen goes to Matthew Endacott for his letter about reviving city centres.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Senator at Coast rally for refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Glen Humphries </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens federal senator Lee Rhiannon will take part in Saturday-?s <b>refugee</b> march and rally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The event in Crown Street Mall at 10.30am, is part of <b>Refugee</b> Week and will also feature a call to close camps for <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens candidate for the seat of Cunningham, Cath Blakey, said Sen Rhiannon will also address the rally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?Australia has returned <b>asylum</b> seekers to the country they are fleeing as recently as May this year,-? Ms Blakey said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?This is a clear breach of international conventions. The Greens have always opposed <b>boat</b> turn backs and mandatory detention.-?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She said the camps were causing -?long-term psychological harm-?.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?Closing the camps will save Australia almost $3 billion and enable the funding of an effective and humane regional strategy,-? Ms Blakey said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>FUTURE’S PROMISE DIMINISHED BY NEGATIVITY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>David Crowe, Political correspondent </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1065 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Parties too often resort to them but scare campaigns imply desperation</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The final days of the 2010 election campaign were a display of pure political desperation. As Julia Gillard travelled from the NSW central coast to Sydney’s western suburbs, she used every stop of the campaign bus to warn of the ­return of Work Choices under Tony Abbott. Gillard, seeing her hold on the prime minister’s office slipping away, clutched at the claim in the sure knowledge that the Labor base — and other voters — still doubted Abbott’s assurance that the old industrial relations policy was “dead, buried and cremated”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I will be devastated if we wake up on Sunday and Mr Abbott is prime minister and Work Choices is back,” she said the day before the August 21 election, after visiting pubs, factories and workers clubs in five marginal seats in two days. The travelling media, ­including yours truly, challenged her scare campaign at every doorstop but this just helped her air her claim. In the event, Gillard was wrong and the media was right to be sceptical. Abbott made plenty of mistakes but restoring Work Choices was not one of them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor looked back on that campaign with mixed feelings. The spectre of Work Choices helped to fend off Abbott’s ­onslaught, which also was based on an overwhelmingly negative message. Even so, it meant Gillard relied too heavily on a scare campaign without a powerful positive message. She could not claim a mandate for anything. This proved fatal when she broke her promise on a carbon tax.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The way Gillard and Abbott fought that election to a draw sent a warning signal that can be heard years later. Scare campaigns work but they don’t work enough. ­Observers have been scathing about the damage from negative politics in recent times. It is clear from history that Australians will respond with nothing more than grudging acceptance if you can offer them only a horror story to vote against.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten’s desperation is laid bare in the “privatising Medicare” scare campaign. Malcolm Turnbull’s anxiety is obvious in his use of <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy to hit back. Yet Shorten is relying more heavily on a negative campaign one week out from polling day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The old holes in Labor’s election platform are still there and still could cause Shorten to stumble on stage. For all his claims about working “with” rather than “for” business, the Opposition Leader has yet to appear at a doorstop alongside a small-business owner or other employer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While he has launched ­employ­ment incentives and ­appren­ticeship plans, he has been unable to get the visible endorsement that could reassure voters worried about his anti-business rhetoric. Shorten’s history shows he has experience working with business but this is not on display in the campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked yesterday whether he was beholden to the unions, Shorten replied with a call for a banking royal commission. The failings of the finance sector are worth ­investigating but Labor uses the issue to cover its weaknesses, take a shot at Turnbull over his investment banking past and paint the government as the friend of big business. Whether that makes it one of Labor’s “100 positive plans” may depend on your political ­allegiance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor asks voters to support a bold policy on negative gearing but it has struggled to develop a convincing message on how it could lift economic growth in the next year or two, rather than far off in the future. The Labor alarm over Medicare highlights its gap on the economy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Even when the Labor claims are discredited in the national media — especially when the head of the <span class="companylink">Australian Medical Association</span> rejected the key “privatisation” claim in this newspaper on Wednesday — they will continue to be spread in local communities. The Coalition is anxious for good reason.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull resorts to scare campaigns in reply, principally by ­exaggerating the impact of Labor’s tax increases on negative gearing and capital gains, but there is a big difference in the scale of his dependence on this tactic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The company tax cut at the heart of Turnbull’s campaign is many things to many people — a huge growth dividend, a waste of money, a boon to small business or a gain so tiny it should be ­ignored — but one thing it is not is a small target.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week’s conventional analysis is that both leaders are using matching scares. In fact, there is a gulf between the claim that Turnbull will privatise Medicare and that Shorten will be weak on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten has a few slim facts to support his warning — such as a government study into outsourcing payments — but his central ­assertion is a figment of his ­imagination. The Coalition has history on its side when it points to the number of <b>boat</b> arrivals — and <b>asylum</b>-seeker deaths at sea — under the past Labor government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull warns of the consequences of Labor’s actual policy on border protection, such as its opposition to temporary protection visas. Shorten warns of a ­Coalition policy he invents. While Immigration Minister Peter Dutton exaggerates the “caveats” he claims in Labor’s policy of turning back boats, the question of Labor’s resolve is an inevitable election dispute. Labor’s internal differ­ences on the issue have been reported on at length for weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both sides are becoming more cautious as the campaign wears on and the polls suggest a close ­result or even a hung parliament.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor was more adventurous on policy in the months before the campaign, when it took the risk of proposing higher taxes on superannuation and its negative gearing changes. The Coalition’s last big policy was outlined on budget day, May 3. The new initiatives are getting smaller and smaller.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Perhaps the negative campaigns are the natural consequence of this trend, the brutal endgame after the high-minded policy contest of seven weeks ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One test of Turnbull’s campaign launch this Sunday will be whether he fights fire with fire by launching a scare to match the one Shorten set off last Sunday or whether he risks outlining a grander theme. Does he want to look as desperate as his rival?The lesson of 2010 is to avoid the descent into negative politics.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gvote : Elections | gpol : Domestic Politics | gvote1 : National/Presidential Elections | nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | nswals : New South Wales | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160623ec6o00026</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160623ec6o0001d" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A hard life only gets worse since turnback</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Amanda Hodge, Nga L.H Nguyen, Exclusive </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>607 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Life in Vietnam was hard enough for Tran Thi Thanh Loan and her family to risk a <b>boat</b> trip to Australia last year, but it has deteriorated immeasurably since they were ­returned by Australian authorities on a hollow promise that no one would be punished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Loan’s fisherman husband, Ho Trung Loi, is serving a two- year jail sentence for helping ­organise an illegal departure in their family-owned fishing <b>boat</b>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Loan is out on bail as she ­appeals her three-year sentence. The ­entire family is under police surveillance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If her appeal fails, her four children, aged four to 16, will have to leave school.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When we were sentenced, the police told us we should pull them all out of school and only send them back after we have served our sentences,” she told The Australian. “I’m afraid one day when I lose the appeal and get imprisoned they will not get to go to class anymore.” Loan and her family are among 92 Vietnamese <b>asylum</b>-seekers intercepted in two separate incidents by the Australian navy last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All were assessed at sea, found not to warrant protection and returned to Vietnam on the written assurance of that government “there would not be any retribution for their illegal departure”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have no reason not to ­believe in the assurance that we were given,” Operation Sovereign Borders commander Andrew Bottrell told a Senate estimates hearing last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eight of the 92 returned by Australia in 2015 have since been convicted and sentenced to jail for variously buying provisions and convincing family and friends to join the voyage. None has been convicted of people-smuggling.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Last week, 21 Vietnamese were returned by Australia after being intercepted in the Timor Sea, des­pite overwhelming evidence the Vietnam government did not honour its undertaking.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s wrong to say we were human smugglers,” says Loan. “We didn’t try to go to Australia for any financial benefit. It was only because our situation was too challenging and we wanted a better future for our families.” A series of cumulative blows — the state seizure of family land, the loss of livelihood from Chin­ese ­incursions into fishing grounds and institutionalised discrimin­ation against Catholic families — convinced them to leave despite Vietnam’s rapid prosperity and record economic growth rates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian authorities say all those returned were fairly ­assessed. Loan says no translator was provided, none of her group of 46 spoke English and it was only on reaching Vung Tau port that they realised they were being returned. The men were detained for a week. Three months later, her husband was arrested and both were charged, along with two others from their <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Loan’s lawyer, Vo Anh Don, told The Australian: “We tried our best to help the defendants, but the prospect was dim because the La Gi Town Party (regional government body) had already commanded the court to deliver a heavy sentence.” Mr Don said any of those identified among last week’s group of returnees as having helped organise the trip would likely face similar sentences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vietnamese Community of Australia acting president Phong Nguyen said all those returned last year were now under police surveillance, with all the onerous connotations that signified. “In Vietnam, police checks are required for a lot of things. If you don’t have police clearance, you will find it extremely hard. It’s not as simple as how the Australian government painted.”The Australian was unable to get a response from the Vietnamese government despite requests.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | vietn : Vietnam | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indochz : Indo-China | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160623ec6o0001d</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020160623ec6o00094" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Mystery of the missing attack ads</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>980 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT’s the great mystery of the election campaign — what happened to the classic, prime-time television attack advertisements?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those are the ads that attack a political leader’s character off the back of their policies, and they’ve been a staple of campaigns for decades.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But with eight days to go until the nation votes, it’s the third parties that are running the down-and-dirty ads, while Labor, the Coalition and Greens have been hovering just slightly above the fray.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, the major parties have so far been relying on their scare campaigns — Labor using Medicare and the Coalition using <b>asylum</b> seekers and national security — to swing undecided voters in the final days of the campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s best effort so far on Malcolm Turnbull includes a photograph of him with his hand to his chin, gazing into the middle distance, as he is accused of being so out of touch he has decided to target Medicare or other health services.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Turnbull’s campaign team so far has made the strategic decision not to go particularly negative on Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at all, apart from a flurry of ads three weeks ago showing him previously supporting the company tax cuts that he now rails against.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That decision comes despite Shorten making it easy for the government by being called to give evidence at the trade union royal commission. It found no criminal actions on behalf of the former union leader but the vision of him sitting in the witness box was very damaging.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rumour has it that the Liberal campaigns strategists have the ads made up and ready to roll out but, if so, they have not yet been deployed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is thought to be sitting on ads directly attacking Turnbull’s extensive business dealings and his web of companies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those ads will presumably start rolling out any moment, but even so, with the ban on television advertising kicking in at midnight on Wednesday, that’s a surprisingly short period to bombard the voters, given this has been an eight-week campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is an established science to producing a strong negative ad on your opponent: find a photograph of them looking shifty, intimidating or just ugly, hire a male voice-over artist to speak slowly and dramatically, use big words in short bursts (newspaper headlines are often ideal) and have dramatic music playing as you accuse your opponent of lying/cheating/thuggery/criminality/hanging out with other liars/cheats/thugs/criminals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">(One Labor person yesterday nominated the Bush-Dukakis ad from the 1988 US presidential race as the gold standard — <span class="companylink">google</span> “Willie Horton attack ad’’ to decide for yourself.) In the absence to date of such direct attacks, the parties instead decided to spend the past 48 hours using the politics of fear.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor persisted with its blatantly dishonest claim that the government will privatise Medicare. That is despite the <span class="companylink">Australian Medical Association</span>, which has been a friend to the ALP in the past, publicly stating the government’s examination of the payments system in no way amounts to a privatisation and would in fact be good for the clumsy old IT systems currently processing Medicare claims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE government panicked in the face of a well-resourced union campaign placing calls to elderly people at home and shamelessly telling them the government would destroy Medicare, forcing Turnbull to go out and declare it would “never, ever be privatised’’ and putting signs up to that effect.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten has since started crab-walking away from his claim but Labor believes its work is done, because people will be thinking about Medicare instead of the economy when they vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government finally responded by attacking Labor’s weak spot — perceptions that it is not tough on border protection and stopping the people smuggling boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Suddenly, details of what are usually secretive “on-water operations’’ found their way into the press, as the government revealed that 700 <b>asylum</b> seekers had tried to get in to the country and been stopped under their tough <b>boat</b> turnback policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister said again yesterday that Labor was encouraging people smugglers through its promise to abolish temporary protection visas and it was weak on border protection because “50 candidates’’ at this election had objected to the party’s turnback policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“A Labor change to temporary protection visas is an enormous opportunity and there will be more boats and more people smuggling. There is no question about that,’’ Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The attacks on Labor grossly overstate the risk that the party will cave on its support of tough <b>asylum</b> seeker policies but, unfortunately for Labor, the government has history on its side — the 50,000 people who arrived on boats and the 1200 who died at sea when the ALP was last in government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Things got even more bizarre yesterday when the usually reasonable Justice Minister Michael Keenan — who oversees the government’s programs identifying at-risk young Muslims in danger of becoming radicalised — lined up Labor’s candidate in the West Australian seat of Cowan, deradicalisation expert Dr Anne Aly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Keenan accused her of supporting radical hate-preacher Junaid Thorne — because she had, in her government-funded role working with at-risk Muslims, written to the court suggesting a placement for Thorne in her deradicalisation program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aly objected strongly to Keenan’s attack and made the pointed comment that she had been placed on the “kill list’’ by radicals for her efforts to head off young people moving towards a dangerous ideology.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Keenan doubled down, though, and said her role was funded to provide early intervention “not to get hate preachers reduced sentences and convicted criminals out of jail earlier”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The July 2 election cannot come soon enough.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ellen Whinnett is national politics editor ellen.whinnett@news.com.au@ellenwhinnett</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Treating voters as fools disgraces lying leaders</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>601 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>24 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Is there is a collective wisdom and wit in the crowd? The world over, there seems much evidence communities have metaphoric antennae that identify cant and calumny. But there are, too, abundant examples of crowds getting things terribly wrong - to be popular does not necessarily imply being right. The rise of the Nazi regime last century comes to mind as a particularly egregious case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It would appear Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten think voters, or a lot of them, are witless to the point of stupidity. The shrillness and sheer dishonesty of the leaders' recent scare campaigns not only show a disdain for the intelligence and sophistication of voters, but are a cynical trashing of the very notion that should be at the heart of lawmaking and governance - positions of public office are positions of public trust.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull snatched the prime ministership last September amid buoyant community expectations he would keep his undertaking to lead mature debate and to end negativity and an unseemly reliance on slogans. And yet this is the man whose popularity has so quickly plummeted amid community disappointment at his performance, which, as we near the end of an unnecessarily long election campaign, has been reduced to repeating a three-word slogan: jobs and growth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse, indicating the unexpected tightness of the election, our Prime Minister is knowingly misrepresenting Labor's policies on border protection. For years, both the Coalition and Labor have competed to produce harsh and even cruel policies to prevent people seeking <b>asylum</b> reaching Australia by <b>boat</b>. Both sides repeat the lie that it is unlawful to seek <b>asylum</b> in such a way. Both sides support mandatory offshore detention and turning back boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the face of all this, Mr Turnbull would have voters believe that were Mr Shorten and his team elected, a flood of people seeking <b>asylum</b> would arrive in people smugglers' boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While acknowledging this is a complex issue that requires an international solution, with Australia playing a leading role in establishing proper processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers in our region, The Age has long argued the harshness of the policies of both sides is unjustified and indeed shamefully inhumane. Although we would like to see change, we, like so many, can see how evident it is that both sides remain wedded to, and in lock-step on, these lamentable policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Mr Turnbull just looks pathetic and desperate in his disingenuous appeal to fear on this issue. But he has been outdone in the lying stakes by Mr Shorten, via his epic dissembling on Medicare. He would have voters believe the Coalition has plans to dismantle Australia's celebrated and successful universal healthcare system, despite the Coalition's ongoing unambiguous policy support for the fundamental elements of the system. Mr Shorten has done the nation a disservice, as the Coalition has now shied from looking to improve the system's efficiency by outsourcing some administration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a valid debate to be had about how to protect the system when both sides have frozen the bulk-billing rebates that are central to it, but Mr Shorten has in effect shut down sensible debate about the evolution of universal healthcare in a growing and ageing population.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition and Labor are not only insulting citizens by promulgating evident falsehoods, they are gormlessly undermining themselves; their dishonesty and cynicism appears to be driving voters to other candidates, particularly those of the Greens and the nascent Nick Xenophon Team.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those who seek the public's trust should trust the public.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smuggler agents restart the boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG BEARUP, AMANDA HODGE, EXCLUSIVE, ADDITIONAL REPORTING: GITA ATHIKA, SID MAHER </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>902 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Smuggler agents behind rebound in <b>asylum</b> trade</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The criminal gang that sent a boatload of Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers to Aceh last week had “agents” in Australia to lure ­potential clients into taking the journey, according to <b>refugee</b> ­advocates working in India.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These agents in Australia are Sri Lankans who spoke to the would-be <b>asylum</b>-seekers by phone. They told them how much money they were earning, far in excess of the average Indian wage, and how good life was in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were also paid to ­reinforce the rumours the people-smugglers had been spreading in the Tamil <b>refugee</b> camps in India: that a change of government would lead to a change of policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As Malcolm Turnbull used a new <b>boat</b> turnback and more divis­ions in Labor over ­<b>asylum</b>-seeker policy to stoke doubts yesterday about Bill Shorten’s resolve to prevent a return of boats, more details emerged of how people-smugglers were ­operating to lure clients.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The process is as follows. In order to make the victim have confidence they will get a big ­income, they put a person on the phone they say is in Australia; this person says how they are able to make money, how they work two to three jobs, and how they have a comfortable life,” said SC Chandrahasan, a <b>refugee</b> advocate in Chennai, India.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When they change this to ­Indian rupees, it is very big.” Mr Chandrahasan referred to the Australian connections as “agents”, and said he believed they were being paid.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said last night smugglers would “use and employ any ­device or person to further their criminal activities to entice vulnerable people to board boats and risk their lives at sea”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Advocates said smuggling gangs arranged for potential ­clients to speak to people in Australia, who might be working as “kitchen hands or butchers”. When would-be clients con­verted the wages into rupees it ­appeared “enormous sums” to people who were working for $200 a month. One advocate, Gladston Xavier, said a family of four in a <b>refugee</b> camp received about 2000 rupees ($40) a month, subsidised rations, access to medical care and access to education from the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister warned yesterday that the threat faced by people-smugglers was greater than in the Howard era and could be rebuffed only by the “steely ­resolve of my government’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said the latest turnback, of 21 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who were returned to Vietnam this month, was the 28th people-smuggling expedition that had been rebuffed, taking to 734 the number of passengers turned back. He said the challenge of ­people-smuggling “is greater than it has ever been’’. “You cannot give an inch to the people-smugglers. They are very determined criminals,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the Opposition Leader accused the government of sending a signal to people-­smugglers that Australia had a lack of will to deter them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There we go, spread a bit of concern and say that somehow Labor has a different policy to the Liberals when it comes to deterring boats,’’ Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This is proof positive the Liberals have run out of anything positive to say about themselves.’’ Mr Chandrahasan, head of the ­Organisation for Eelam <b>Refugee</b> Rehabilitation, which aims to take refugees in India back to Sri Lanka, said: “You would be surprised to hear that in our <b>refugee</b> camps we talk about your politics. The people-smugglers spread the news. When there was a change of prime minister from (Tony) ­Abbott to Turnbull, ­people-smugglers were spreading news in the camps that things would be better under the new leader.” On Aceh’s Lhoknga beach yesterday, Sulaima Dewi Subah, 25, told The Australian her brother-in-law had left three years ago from the same southern ­Indian <b>refugee</b> camp where she had grown up. He used the same local agent who ­approached her family last month selling dreams of a vastly better life in Australia. “My brother-in-law told us he is now in Australia,” she said. “He told us: ‘You come here. Your life will be really good’.” Ms Subah insisted she had never heard of Australia’s <b>boat</b> turnback policy, nor of its offshore detention facilities, and she had simply taken her brother-in-law and the agent at their words. “They didn’t say anything about this. The agent said there would be no problem and that the <b>boat</b> was safe. That’s why we started sailing.” Indonesian authorities initially refused to let the group onshore, insisting they would instead repair their damaged vessel and tow them back out to sea. By Saturday they had relented, as bad weather buffeted the <b>boat</b>, and they erected tents on the beach for shelter. By Tuesday, immigration offic­ials ­admitted the <b>boat</b> was too damaged to repair and the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> and International Organ­isation for Migration offic­ials were finally granted access to the group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, the 43 Tamils, ­including nine children and one pregnant woman, were bussed to the Lhokseumawe <b>refugee</b> camp six hours away in northern Aceh, stopping briefly at the office of Aceh Governor Zaini Abdulla.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He handed aid to the group and told reporters ­instructions to move the <b>asylum</b>-seekers had come from Vice-President Jusuf Kalla.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Scare tactics dominate the day</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew ProbynFederal Political Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>332 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Second</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Political combat between Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten became duelling scare campaigns as the leaders jabbed each other over Medicare privatisation and <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The politics of fear saw the Government break its usual cone of silence over “on water matters”, with the Prime Minister revealing two <b>asylum</b> seeker vessels had been intercepted on their way to Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the Labor leader continued his campaign on Medicare, ignoring Government emphatic denials it intended to privatise the iconic universal health system.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull questioned Labor’s resolve on border protection after confirming the Government had recently turned back the 28th <b>boat</b> since the coalition’s 2013 election victory, with 21 people on the vessel returned to Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There is also a vessel in Aceh (Indonesia) that is attempting to come to Australia,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Let me be quite clear about this. The people smugglers will continue to test our resolve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“ They have a very, very lucrative business model.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have put them out of business but they keep on trying to get back into business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is a tragic thing to think that the Labor Party would once again be in charge of our borders. Imagine the chaos that we would be presented with under a Labor-Greens-independent government?” Mr Shorten said that Mr Turnbull had stooped to negativity because the coalition had run out of positive things to say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We will turn back boats. We will deter people smugglers,” Mr Shorten said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The Liberals know this and they should be ashamed of themselves, giving the business model of people smugglers a bit of a jolt in the arm by playing tawdry partisan politics.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Shorten rebooted his Medicare scare, saying: “privatisation occurs when you increase the proportion of health payments made by individuals as opposed to the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If the Liberals win, this will be a green light for the Liberals to take our Medicare system down the US road.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Peddlers of death back on the seas</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS, ALICIA WOOD & KARA VICKERY </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>400 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MORE than 700 <b>asylum</b> seekers on boats have been turned back to their homeland before they could reach Australia in the past three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The figure has highlighted how hard criminal people smuggling syndicates are trying to penetrate the Coalition’s hard-line border protection policy which has successfully stopped the boats for almost 700 days.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph ­obtained a photograph of the Vietnamese <b>boat</b> that was intercepted by federal agencies en route to Australia last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday launched the strongest attack of the election campaign so far on Labor’s weakening border protection measures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Let me be quite clear about this. The people smugglers will continue to test our resolve,’’ Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The challenge of people smuggling is greater than it has ever been. The only thing that stops them, is the steely resolve of my government to turn those boats back.” Mr Turnbull said 734 <b>asylum</b> seekers had been turned around by federal agencies since the Coalition launched Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are 734 passengers that have been returned and they are still trying to test us. Imagine what they will do to a Labor government?” Labor leader Bill Shorten’s border protection policy is ­almost in tatters after another MP and one candidate publicly opposed turnbacks, leaving well over 50 in his party against the successful policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victorian MP Lisa Chesters said she will “continue to advocate” against turnbacks and offshore detention, while Victorian candidate Pail Klisaris said the nation would one day apologise for its treatment of refugees in a similar manner to the Stolen Generation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Border protection domina-ted election debate yesterday after The Daily Telegraph ­reported a <b>boat</b>, carrying 20 people from Vietnam, had been successfully turned around during the campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said the push by people smugglers showed why no aspect of the policy can change. He said the failed ­attempts showed boats would come faster than ever before if there was a weakening.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 50,000 people on 800 boats arrived illegally during the six years of Labor government. About 1200 ­people died at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten insisted <b>boat</b> ­arrivals would not increase under a Shorten government.“I had the courage to take this issue to the national conference last year. I said we will turn back boats,’’ he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>LETTER OF THE DAY A cruel policy for refugees</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>211 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Northern Territory News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NORTHT</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NTNews</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HOW can the leaders of the two major parties justify destroying the lives of innocent people by saying they must do so in order to save the lives of other innocent people?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the years that these people have spent hoping against hope that they might gain entry to Australia, the government has done nothing constructive to divert the likelihood of future <b>boat</b> arrivals by persuading the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia to sign the Convention on Refugees and join in establishing joint processing centres.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Q&A Malcolm Turnbull stated that the children in detention centres had all been removed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I think closer examination of that answer is justified.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It may be true for detention centres in Australia but certainly not for those offshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While refugees in Nauru and on Manus Island are passed off as being the responsibility of the relevant governments, the fact remains that they are there at Australia’s behest and considerable expense.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are children being persecuted in Nauru and receiving the freedom to live in either place is to return to a life of discrimination and fear of attack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These people sought <b>asylum</b> and we have assigned them to hell! Rosemary Jacob, Fannie Bay</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Coalition ramps up <b>boat</b> turnback divide</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SID MAHER, NATIONAL AFFAIRS EDITOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>524 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b>-SEEKERS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull has used a new <b>boat</b> turnback and more divisions in Labor over <b>asylum</b>-seeker ­policy to stoke doubts about Bill Shorten’s resolve to prevent a ­repeat of the flood of boats under the Rudd-Gillard governments.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister, campaigning in Cairns, warned that the threat faced by people-smugglers was greater than in the Howard era and could be rebuffed only by the “steely resolve of my ­government’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With the government facing a concerted scare campaign from Labor over Medicare, the ­Coalition will return to divisions within Labor over <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, particularly <b>boat</b> turnbacks, as the election campaign enters its final week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton confirmed that 21 <b>asylum</b>-seekers had been returned to Vietnam this month after their <b>boat</b> was ­intercepted at sea by Australian border protection authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the Opposition Lead­er hit back, accusing the ­government of reverting to its “break glass’’ scare campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said that people-smugglers were “rubbing their hands ­together’’ at the prospect of a Labor win. “There are thousands of people waiting in Indonesia to get on to boats and if Mr Shorten is elected prime minister, I believe they will hop on those boats very, very quickly,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The minister seized on comments by Labor MP for Bendigo Lisa Chesters, who said earlier this month she would continue to ­advocate against turnbacks and offshore detention and she hoped Labor would change the policy. The Labor candidate for the Melbourne seat of Aston, Paul Klisaris, also spoke out against Labor’s ­policy in a debate on Tuesday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The government has also seized on comments by a Labor ACT Senate candidate David Smith, who has called for “fundamental changes’’ to the policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said Labor remained divided on border security.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said the <b>boat</b> was the 28th people-smuggling exped­ition that had been turned back, taking to 734 the number of passengers turned back. He said the challenge of people-smuggling “is greater than it has ever been’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The only thing that stops them is the steely resolve of my government to turn those boats back,’’ Mr Turnbull said. He said Labor had announced it was going to abolish Temporary Protection Visas, which would mean the 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who came by <b>boat</b> under the Labor government who are in Australia would get permanent residence.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This will send an absolutely unequivocal signal to the people-smugglers that under a Labor government, anyone who manages to get to Australia on a <b>boat</b> will be able to stay here permanently,’’ the Prime Minister said. “It will be used aggressively as a marketing tool by people-smugglers and it absolutely demonstrates that ­hollowness of Bill Shorten’s claim that he shares the same border protection policies as us.’’Mr Shorten accused the government of sending a signal to people-smugglers that Australia had no will to deter them: “There we go, spread a bit of concern and say that somehow Labor has a ­different policy to the Liberals when it comes to deterring boats.’’</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160622ec6n00039</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020160622ec6n00041" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Turnbull lauds return of 700 <b>asylum</b> seekers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS AND KARA VICKERY </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>173 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MORE than 700 <b>asylum</b> seekers on boats have in the past three years been turned back to their homeland before they could reach Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The figure has highlighted how people-smuggling syndicates are trying to penetrate the Coalition’s hardline border protection policy, which has successfully stopped the boats for almost 700 days.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The details came as the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun obtained a photograph of a Vietnamese <b>boat</b> intercepted en route to Australia last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday launched the strongest attack of the campaign on Labor’s weakening border protection policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s policy is fraying after another MP and one candidate publicly opposed turnbacks, leaving well over 50 in his party against the policy.Victorian MP Lisa Chesters said she would “continue to advocate” against turnbacks and offshore detention, while Victorian candidate Pail Klisaris said the nation would one day apologise for its treatment of refugees in a similar manner to the stolen generation.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020160622ec6n00041</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AFNR000020160622ec6n00003" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>The boats v Medicare fear election</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>725 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian Financial Review</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AFNR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016. Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull plays <b>asylum</b>-seeker cardShorten calls Medicare a 'birthright'Abbott, Howard to attend Liberal launch</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The politics of fear has consumed the federal election campaign as the government mounts a full-frontal attack over <b>asylum</b> seekers to counter Labor's scare campaign about the Coalition's supposed intention to privatise Medicare.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Less than a fortnight until polling day and with the Coalition ahead in a modest number of seats, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull dispensed with the protocol of not commenting on "on-water matters" and claimed there would be a swarm of boats should Labor win on July 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton revealed that a <b>boat</b> carrying 21 passengers, the 28th to arrive since the Coalition was elected, was recently turned back to Vietnam, while another was in the Indonesian port of Aceh "attempting to come to Australia".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seekers arriving by <b>boat</b> was a key factor in Labor's election losses in 2001 and 2013, as well as the 2010 near-miss, and the Coalition is ramping up fears that if Labor wins, the flow of <b>asylum</b> seekers will start again because the party opposes temporary protection visas and will abolish them if elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This will send an absolutely unequivocal signal to the people smugglers that under a Labor government, anyone who manages to get to Australia on a <b>boat</b> will be able to stay here permanently," Mr Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It will be used aggressively as a marketing tool by people smugglers and it absolutely demonstrates that hollowness of Bill Shorten's claim that he shares the same border protection policies as us."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition has been frustrated this week because Medicare has dominated the campaign since the weekend when Mr Shorten used his launch to declare the election a referendum on Medicare and step up fears about Liberal plans to privatise it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull then dumped plans to outsource the data management and payment systems of Medicare, something that had been in train for two years, to try to take the sting out of Labor's campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said again on Wednesday that he was no longer wedded to outsourcing such services because it would hollow out the ability of the government to do it through such vehicles as the Digital Transformation Office he established as communications minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"There is a risk that if you outsource too much of government services, you run the risk that you end up with very little talent or capability within government," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The Medicare payments system is enormous ... there is no doubt that we can bring that into the 21st century and do so within government."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten was unbowed on Wednesday. He accused the Coalition of resorting to the "break glass" option of boats as he continued his Medicare campaign, even brandishing his own Medicare card to pronounce it to be as important as an Australian passport.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"This is a birthright of Australians," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten's campaign was criticised by Christine Bennett, who led the first Rudd government's 2009 health and hospitals review process. She said the Turnbull government's now abandoned plan to contract out Medicare's payments function was "just a business efficiency process in government - it's not the privatisation of Medicare".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Health economists have said the same thing and on Wednesday, the new president of the Australian Medical Association, Michael Gannon, entered the debate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The <span class="companylink">AMA</span>'s already come out very clearly in this election campaign and supported Labor's promise to undo the freeze on patient rebates to see GPs and other specialists, but fixing up a back-room system that's clunky, 30 years old and doesn't work, is not in any way an attempt to privatise Medicare," Dr Gannon said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One Labor strategist said Medicare was to Labor like boats to the Coalition. Just having it talked about was beneficial because health was a perceived Labor strength. He said Dr Gannon's intervention was welcome because it came "just when we thought the gas had gone out of it".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Sunday, the Coalition will follow Labor and launch its campaign in western Sydney, in the marginal seat of Reid, which MP Craig Laundy won from Labor in 2013. Former prime ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard will attend.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>IN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>i82 : Insurance | igovspon : Government Sponsored Health Insurance | i82003 : Non-life Insurance | i8200301 : Health/Medical Insurance | ifinal : Financial Services</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gvote : Elections | gpol : Domestic Politics | gvote1 : National/Presidential Elections | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Fairfax Media Management Pty Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AFNR000020160622ec6n00003</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160622ec6n0001m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Opinion</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Time we talked morals of <b>asylum</b></span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROBYN WHITAKER - Robyn Whitaker is a lecturer in Biblical Studies at Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>868 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>23 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b> seeker treatment is often framed in legal terms, but it's essentially a moral issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A meme supporting a more welcoming stance towards <b>asylum</b> seekers has appeared repeatedly on <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> recently. One iteration states, "Don't forget, slavery was legal, the holocaust was legal, apartheid was legal". The precision of the statement aside (particularly in relation to the holocaust), the sentiment is that the law is not necessarily moral and that law alone cannot be the arbitrator of what is moral, right, or ethical in our culture.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia's policy of mandatory detention for those who arrive by <b>boat</b> is often framed as a legal issue, but is also a moral issue. It may even be the moral issue of our time. Being able to clearly articulate a moral stance is necessary for those who want to challenge current policies. Morals are what motivate a politician to "cross the floor" on an issue or drive changes in law and policy. This is not to say that legal and political processes are unnecessary, but rather that we need to also be talking about our moral stance towards refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers, as individuals and as a country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Morals are tricky things. Loosely defined they are a set of beliefs or attitudes based on our values. But even when our value systems differ, depending on whether they are based on our religious affiliation or cultural background, we can often agree about whether something is moral or not, that is, whether it is essentially a good thing. For example, we agree it is unacceptable for one person to kill another, because we value human life and recognise the rights of others to life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australia we tend to be a bit leery of people who want to discuss morals because often they are the same people who want to tell us whom we can love or what we can do with our bodies. But morals can do so much more and do not just belong to the religious among us. Changes in moral values, of what we deem just or ethical in society, inform and change our laws (and in turn our political policies). In 1902 women were given the vote because enough of the community recognised their essential equality as human persons and this value forced a change in federal policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In recent decades the law has moved to acknowledge Indigenous land rights due to a changing perception about what is just for our country's first peoples. Currently the legal system is facing more change around the rights of gay and lesbian couples and their access to marriage equality. This is in large part because enough people in the community are beginning to challenge traditional views about sexual morality and demand that LGBT people receive the same rights as heteronormative people under the law. In each of these cases the moral argument precedes and motivates the legal one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I write as a Christian and biblical scholar whose values and morals are deeply informed by the Bible. Those who claim to be Christians or Jews don't get much moral wiggle room when it comes to the treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers. The Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, is brilliantly clear in its insistence on treating the foreigner as you'd treat those who are native-born, leaving aside food from the harvest, protecting foreigners from mistreatment and even loving them. Twice the Bible commands readers to love the stranger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This should not be surprising. After all, the Old Testament is a collection of books written by people who experienced their homelands destroyed by war, had been forcibly displaced from their land, at times banned from practising their religion and had lived entirely at the mercy of foreign regimes.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Christians will find similar teaching in the New Testament where such lines as "love your neighbour as yourself" are explicitly applied to those outside one's cultural group. Worth noting too is that Jesus was part of a family who sought <b>asylum</b> in Egypt in order to escape the genocide of Jewish male babies under King Herod.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The mandate to welcome refugees and displaced people is not up for debate for those who take the Bible seriously. Australia's treatment of <b>asylum</b> seekers is not essentially a matter of economics, law, or politics (although there are excellent financial and legal reasons for re-evaluating Australia's mandatory detention policy) but also a moral issue that goes to the heart of whether those who claim to be Christian recognise God's love extends to people who come to our borders in need.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Readers will come from a variety of different religious traditions or none at all, but all of our actions and beliefs are informed by our values. Do you think all humans deserve to be treated with dignity? Do you believe children should be imprisoned? Do you think it is fair to put anyone in jail indefinitely when they have not been convicted of a crime? You may not. But let's at least have the conversation.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>HERE THEY COME</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Simon Benson </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>103 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph2</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ELECTION EXCLUSIVE - BOATS ARE BACK Smugglers re-start evil trade</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AN <b>asylum boat</b> has been intercepted making a run for Australia in the first serious attempt by people smugglers to test our borders during the federal election campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph can reveal a <b>boat</b> from Vietnam was seized by the navy in the Timor Sea as people smugglers capitalise on election uncertainty to try to re-start their evil trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is understood the <b>boat</b> was set on fire and scuttled, with 20 <b>asylum</b> seekers processed at sea and sent home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FULL ELECTION COVERAGE P12-13</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghutrk : Human Trafficking | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | npag : Page-One Stories | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020160622ec6m00002</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160621ec6m000bf" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Vietnamese <b>asylum</b>-seekers sent home as smugglers test post-poll waters</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AMANDA HODGE, GITA ATHIKA </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>579 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IMMIGRATION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A group of 20 <b>asylum</b>-seekers ­attempting to reach Australia as ­people-smugglers test the ­resolve to turn back boats during the election campaign has been sent home to Vietnam.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b>-seekers were picked up in the Timor Sea and their claims for protection rejected before they were flown home last week. It is understood the <b>boat</b> was set on fire and scuttled by the navy after it was deemed unseaworthy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An intelligence source was ­reported as saying the vessel had originated in Vietnam, and likely made its way through the Indonesian archipelago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government would not confirm the turnback.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bid to reach Australia was reported in The Daily Telegraph last night, as Indonesian authorities all but ruled out towing 44 Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers back out to sea, saying the <b>boat</b> was too badly damaged.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The decision came as the group revealed they had not meant to stop in Aceh and wanted to continue to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration authorities said last night they had notified the Sri Lankan and Indian embassies and were hoping they would issue the ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers with identity ­papers so they could return to their respective countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">UN</span> officials were yesterday given access to the Tamil <b>asylum</b>-seekers for the first time since they cut anchor with a stricken engine and washed ashore early last week on Lhoknga beach, and were continuing to petition authorities to transfer them to permanent shelter. The group were being held in tents under close police guard on the beach yesterday, but The Australian put questions via an ­intermediary to one woman, ­Arthika, who said the captain and crew of their <b>boat</b> had abandoned them outside Indonesian waters and escaped in another <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This was an accident,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We want to go to Christmas ­Island. “This <b>boat</b> is not good. We want a new <b>boat</b>. We don’t want to stay in Indonesia.” Authorities and representatives from the central government were due to meet last night to ­decide their fate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aceh officials initially refused to allow the group — including nine children and one pregnant woman — ashore, but relented on Saturday as the weather turned bad and it became clear it was going to take longer to repair the vessel the planned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday, heavy machinery sat idle on the beach as authorities debated what to do next.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stormy weather had hampered all attempts to dislodge the dilapidated trawler from where it sits wedged in shallow waters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesian Immigration spokes­­man Heru Santoso Ananta Yudha said last night: “The possibility of towing them (<b>asylum</b>-seekers) back out with their <b>boat</b> is very small because the <b>boat</b> is no longer seaworthy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Maybe the embassy will facilitate them with travel documents and they can return to their country. For now we’ll keep them here; if they are refugees then they’ll go to <b>refugee</b> centre.” The Sri Lankan embassy in ­Jakarta said last night that its government was open to “voluntary return of Sri Lankan refugees ... through a sound repatriation mechanism”.The 44 Sri Lankan Tamils are believed to have left last month from southern India, which still hosts close to 100,000 Sri Lankan refugees seven years after the civil war ended. Indian <b>refugee</b> advocates have told The Australian they believe <b>asylum</b>-seekers are being duped by people-smugglers into believing that there will be a change in Australian policy.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smugglers to crank up business: PM</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew ProbynFederal Political Editor </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>343 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull says people smugglers are “marketing” the return of a Labor government to try to entice fare-paying <b>asylum</b> seekers to get on boats to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister said the Opposition’s promise to reinstate temporary protection visas was also being used by criminal syndicates to crank up business again.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know they are marketing that there will be or could be a change of government in Australia and the way, the opportunities to smuggle people to Australia will be open again,” Mr Turnbull said on Northern Territory radio yesterday. “They are absolutely adept at using the social media in particular for marketing to their very vulnerable customers.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just 10 days before polling day, the Liberals plan to emphasise Labor failures in border protection over six years in government when 51,388 <b>asylum</b> seekers arrived on 818 boats between November 2007 and September 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor leader Bill Shorten has promised not to unpick the coalition’s suite of policies, including <b>boat</b> turn-backs. But Mr Turnbull said Kevin Rudd broke an identical promise before the 2007 election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I was opposition leader at the time and I begged him not to,” the PM said. “I begged him again and again not to, and Rudd believed he could placate the Left of his party and the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We know what happened — 50,000 unauthorised arrivals and 1200 at least drowned at sea.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The 2016 <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> poll, released yesterday, found Australians were both very positive towards immigration and strongly supported <b>boat</b> turn-backs</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A clear majority (73 per cent) said immigration had a positive impact on the Australian economy and 72 per cent said immigration made the nation stronger.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the <b>boat</b> turn-back policy, 63 per cent agreed “stopping the boats means that Australia can take in more refugees through <span class="companylink">UN</span> processes” and 54 per cent backed processing <b>asylum</b> seekers offshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
<span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> executive director Michael Fullilove said supporting the <b>boat</b> turn-backs did not mean anti-immigration.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PAUL MURRAY P94</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smuggler turnback a warning for Labor</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON, NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>471 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EXCLUSIVE Turnbull fires up over boats and land rights</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE navy has intercepted an <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> off Australian waters in the first serious attempt by people smugglers to test our borders during the election campaign.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph can reveal a <b>boat</b> was seized in the Timor Sea, trying to make a run for Australia, after what is believed to have been a joint operation between an Australian Navy frigate and an Australian Border Force cutter. It is understood the <b>boat</b> was set on fire and scuttled by the navy after it was deemed unseaworthy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior intelligence source told The Daily Telegraph 20 <b>asylum</b> seekers were taken on board the Australian vessels. They confirmed the operation occurred late last week.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <b>asylum</b> seekers were processed at sea and are considered not to be owed protection. They were then flown back, either from the Australian mainland or a third country port.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The intelligence source said the vessel had originated from Vietnam, which has become an increasingly frequent point of origin for <b>boat</b> ventures, and likely made its way through the Indonesian archipelago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Turnbull government would not confirm the turnback, which would be the 28th unsuccessful venture since former prime minister Tony Abbott began Operation Sovereign Borders in late 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The news comes as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday revealed people smugglers were using revelations Labor would provide a permanent home to 30,000 ­illegal arrivals in Australia as a marketing tool.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull’s intervention on the contentious issue follows The Daily Telegraph’s exposure last week that Labor would provide permanent settlement for the bulk of the 30,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrived under the Rudd/Gillard government and are still awaiting processing in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister said the threat of Labor abolishing temporary protection visas had provided a product to sell to desperate <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The people smugglers are starting to market again,’’ he said. “They are adept in using social media, in particular, for marketing to their very vulnerable customers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They are among the most evil criminals in the world but they are very adept at marketing.” Mr Turnbull said the prospect of a Labor government had also been used as a tool by the people smugglers over the past year: “They are marketing that there could be a change of government in Australia.’’ The Prime Minister said former prime minister Kevin Rudd abandoned the Howard era <b>boat</b> policy despite pledging, like Bill Shorten, to keep it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Kevin Rudd ran in 2007 on the basis he would turn back the boats and follow John Howard’s policy but he abandoned it,” he said.The government argues abolishing TPVs and providing a home to the legacy caseload provides smugglers with a product to sell.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | ghutrk : Human Trafficking | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020160621ec6m0003z</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160621ec6m0005i" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Vietnamese sent back</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>31 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b>-seekers attempting to reach Australia during the ­election campaign have been sent home to Vietnam after their <b>boat</b> was intercepted by the Navy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FULL REPORT P9</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>npag : Page-One Stories | ncat : Content Types</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | vietn : Vietnam | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indochz : Indo-China | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160621ec6m0005i</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AGEE000020160621ec6m0004p" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Opinion - Leaders</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Dangerous voyage a test of decency</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>622 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The fate of a small <b>boat</b> stranded in Indonesia with 44 Sri Lankans on board looms as a test of human decency, for Australia as much as Indonesian authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The vessel has been marooned almost a fortnight on the beach in Aceh Besar near the western port of Lhoknga, apparently after a perilous open ocean voyage from southern India. It is far from clear whether the men, women and children on board are seeking <b>asylum</b> from persecution, or - as Indonesian authorities contend - are hoping for economic opportunity. A proper assessment of their circumstances is required, far more than the hasty assertions so far made.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The impasse has become increasingly desperate. Indonesian police fired a warning shot into the air last week after several women scrambled from the deck onto the foreshore. The group has since been permitted to huddle in a tent on the beach. A seven-month-old child is among the passengers, doubtlessly magnifying the distress.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Authorities have unsuccessfully attempted to push the <b>boat</b> back into the water, despite stormy seas. But when the weather clears, the intention is to tow the <b>boat</b>. Indonesian navy commander Kicky Salvachdie has said the <b>boat</b> will be escorted to the maritime border. "After that it's up to them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It may well be up to Australia. The passengers have said they could not get citizenship in India and plan to sail south to Australia "for a better life and to earn money". If the vessel does indeed make it to Australian waters, and the lamentable policy to turn back boats is applied, 44 people will be caught in a game of ping-pong between national jurisdictions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What should be the guiding principle in this case, and every case, is never to put people in the way of harm. The <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span> has rightly warned there are already too many people losing their lives at sea in search of a better life. At some point, a country must take responsibility and allow these people safe harbour and consider their situation, rather than relying on the few fleeting comments about their intentions reported after questions from the media. History has too many sad lessons of loss when countries turn away from humanitarian obligation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN</span> this week released the latest statistics on global trends in migration to coincide with World <b>Refugee</b> Day. The most alarming figure showed war and persecution has driven more people from their homes than at any time since records began. About 65.3 million people are now displaced, and of those people classified as refugees, about half have fled conflicts in just three countries: Syria (4.9 million), Afghanistan (2.7 million) and Somalia (1.1 million).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The scale of this challenge is staggering, all the more so when compared with the political convulsions caused in Australia by the arrival of relatively few <b>asylum</b> seekers. Countries in the Middle East and Europe have struggled to cope with the mass movement of refugees, especially from Syria. Thousands of people are thought to have perished attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, while resentment stoked by prejudice has tested the commitment of some European nations to international conventions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">International <b>refugee</b> law is not without failings, but what should never be overlooked, particularly at times of stress, is the fundamental obligation to help those in desperate need. Australia may be geographically distant from these conflicts, but the moral responsibility to assist applies regardless. Yet in this election, both major parties have refused any mature debate on what role Australia can play to ameliorate the global <b>refugee</b> crisis, choosing instead to punish people in offshore camps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a test of decency, Australia appears doomed to fail.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b> story told at-working mums group</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG ELLIS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>105 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Illawarra Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ILM</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Illawarra Working Mums Group is marking <b>Refugee</b> Week by inviting a woman who has made the journey to Australia to be guest speaker to its next meeting. On June 28 Loan Nitte will share her story at the Lagoon about growing up in war-torn Vietnam, escaping to freedom by <b>boat</b>, surviving at sea and living in a <b>refugee</b> camp in Malaysia for a year. She will also talk about experiencing bullying and racism as well as generosity, kindness and compassion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bookings at http://www.trybooking.com/GTXS[http://www.trybooking.com/GTXS]. There is a creche for children.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Smugglers in bid to restart <b>boat</b> flow as election nears</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GREG BEARUP, AMANDA HODGE, EXCLUSIVE, ADDITIONAL REPORTING: PAIGE TAYLOR </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pre-poll bid to restart <b>boat</b> flow</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People-smugglers appear to be using the July 2 election to dupe <b>asylum</b>-seekers into believing they can make it to Australia, according to <b>refugee</b> advocates in India.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One <b>boat</b> made it to the Indonesian province of Aceh last week with 44 people — Sri Lankan Tamils — on board. Efforts to push the <b>boat</b> back to sea yesterday were unsuccessful. Another <b>boat</b>, also carrying Tamils, was intercepted by Indian authorities off the southern tip of India a few weeks ago; this vessel too was believed to be bound for Australia. There may also be a third <b>boat</b> that has not yet been discovered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Gladston Xavier, chairman of the South Asian <b>Refugee</b> Rights Network, said: “The people-smugglers are the motivating force behind it. People are being duped into this. There is a lot of frustration as some people have been refugees for more than 25 to 30 years.” He said he believed people-smugglers had been telling <b>asylum</b>-seekers “that change is around the corner” with the election approaching.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is very suspicious about why these people would leave now because in the last year we have not seen maritime movements like this,” he said. “They have tried to leave and they have been stopped. We don’t know why they are motivated to leave now. In Sri Lanka things have improved quite a bit. In India there is no pressure to return. Of course a durable solution is not far away, but it is not near either. These are not people who have been tortured or whose life is at threat in India, definitely not.” The apparent re-emergence of the people-smuggling trade to Australia comes amid divisions within the opposition on the policy of <b>boat</b> turnbacks despite Bill Shorten pledging to continue the Coalition’s hardline stance if elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Contrary views within Labor on <b>asylum</b>-seekers and offshore processing have dogged its election campaign, with dozens of MPs and candidates questioning the ALP’s stated position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last week accused Bill Shorten of recklessness over the party’s position on temporary protection visas. Labor is poised to grant permanent residency to nearly 30,000 eligible <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> under the former Labor government. The move is considered the most significant departure by the Opposition Leader from the tough border protection policies introduced by the Coalition under former prime minister Tony Abbott. Mr Shorten has denied this, saying the position is nothing new and decided by Labor last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The passengers on board the two intercepted boats were Sri Lankan Tamils who had been living in camps in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. There are 68,000 refugees in the camps, and another 50,000 ­living in the community who fled Sri Lanka during the country’s long civil war.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And there may be more boats that have left for Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">S.C. Chandrahasan, who is the head of an organisation that works with Tamil refugees living in India, said: “Yesterday we had information that a <b>refugee</b>, in a camp close to Chennai, had been found missing and information had come from his relatives in Australia, that, despite being advised not to pursue a journey, he was trying to leave for Australia.” Dr Xavier said it was unusual for Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers to go to Aceh. “Aceh is not a regular stop for Sri Lankans;, they usually go straight to Cocos or Christmas islands,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yesterday it was reported the 44 Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers, who were on Aceh, would be ­escorted into international ­waters by Indonesian authorities. They reportedly said that if this were to happen they would continue their journey to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia’s co-ordinating minister for political legal and ­security affairs, Luhut Pandjaitan, said that, although the government was aware of its humanitarian obligations to <b>asylum</b>-seekers, it had also to be cautious about the possible ­security risks.“There are questions over whether they are genuine refugees or economic refugees, or even whether or not they are foreign terrorist fighters waiting to infiltrate other countries to gain their objective,” he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>It’s best for us if Britons vote to stay in the EU, says Bishop</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL MALEY, CAMERON STEWART </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>561 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BREXIT</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s national interest is best served by Britain remaining part of the <span class="companylink">EU</span>, with economic volatility and a loss of influence among the potential consequences of a British departure, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said yesterday.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With days to go before the British public votes in a referendum on whether to remain part of the <span class="companylink">EU</span>, Ms Bishop said it was “clearly’’ in Australia’s interests for Britain to remain part of the organisation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While emphasising that a decision on whether to leave or to stay was the sovereign choice of the British public, Ms Bishop said the consequences of a Brexit were unknown, but could be wideranging and costly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If you ask, what would be in Australia’s interest, I think it would be for a strong Britain to ­remain,’’ Ms Bishop said. “The consequences of Britain leaving are, of course, unknown. I expect it would create considerable economic volatility as we’ve already seen with the reaction in the markets with just the potential of Britain leaving, and of course that would impact in Australia.’’ Ms Bishop said the <span class="companylink">EU</span> was a significant trading bloc for Australia, meaning increased instability in the <span class="companylink">EU</span> would impact on us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Her comments came as an opinion survey of Australian attitudes to foreign police found that a comfortable majority of Australians believed the Coalition was best placed to handle most elements of Australian foreign policy, particularly the hot-button issues of national security and <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The poll, conducted by Sydney think tank the <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute for International Policy</span>, also found a comfortable majority of Australians favoured the Coalition’s policy of <b>boat</b> turnbacks, with 63 per cent of respondents agreeing that “stopping the boats means that Australia can take in more refugees through <span class="companylink">UN</span> processes’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the poll found strong support — 62 per cent — for the Abbott government’s decision to take 12,000 Syrian refugees, with 65 per cent disagreeing with the policy of favouring Christians and religions over Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On eight key elements of foreign policy — such as the handling of the US alliance, economic management and foreign investment — the Coalition had a comfortable lead over Labor, with Labor leading on just one issue: as the party best equipped to manage Australia’s response to climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On China, Australian attitudes have softened since 2014, with 43 per cent of respondents ranking China as our most important relationship. That figure is up from 37 per cent in 2014 and on a par with the US, also considered our most important foreign partnership by 43 per cent of respondents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One explanation for the shift in attitudes is possibly found in the US itself, with most Australians leery at the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency. “When we insert the prospect of a president Trump into the equation, almost half of Australians say ‘Australia should distance itself from the US if it elects a president like Donald Trump’,’’ <span class="companylink">Lowy Institute</span> executive director Michael Fullilove said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In further polling we conducted this month, 77 per cent … said they would prefer Hillary Clinton as president, with only 11 per cent saying they would prefer Trump.’’ China is considered our most important regional partnership, followed by Japan, Indonesia and Singapore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WORLD P9 COMMENTARY P12BUSINESS P19</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Jewel Topsfield in Jakarta   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>569 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>21 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A007</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankans vow to head for Australia if <b>boat</b> towed out by Indonesia By Jewel Topsfield in Jakarta</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankans on board a <b>boat</b> marooned in Indonesia for more than a week insist they will continue their journey to Australia if their <b>boat</b> is escorted back into international waters as planned by Indonesian authorities. The 44 Sri Lankans, who were stranded in Aceh Besar on June 11 when their <b>boat</b> developed engine trouble, were scheduled to be taken</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">by bus to a nearby port in Lhoknga, and then escorted out of Indonesian territory. "The last thing we want to see is for governments to turn boats back into the open sea where it could be very dangerous for people who have been through so much already," said the UNHCR's Indonesia representative Thomas Vargas. Mr Vargas said the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> had requested access to the Sri Lankans at all levels of government but it had so far been denied.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Geutanyoe Foundation, an</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aceh-based humanitarian organisation, said many of the Sri Lankans had <b>refugee</b> identity cards issued by the government of Tamil Nadu, one of the 29 states of India. "On World <b>Refugee</b> Day, which falls on June 20, we once again call on the government of Indonesia to grant immediate and unhindered access to [the <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span>] <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> to meet the Sri Lankan Tamil <b>asylum</b> seekers," it said. One of the Sri Lankans, 25-year-old Sehuda, said they would continue to</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia because they could not get citizenship in India. She said they wanted to go to Australia "for a better life and to earn money" and had paid their leader 50,000 "Indian money" (rupees) - the equivalent of $1000 - for a place on the <b>boat</b>. The Geutanyoe Foundation said during the past two months there had been a renewed crackdown by the military in northern Sri Lanka, and this had further deterred Sri Lankan refugees in India from returning to Sri Lanka. "The fact</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">there are a large number of women and young children ... indicates strongly that they are seeking <b>asylum</b>, not only seeking employment, as has been suggested by several Indonesian observers," it said. The foundation also warned that Australia had tough policies designed to prevent <b>asylum</b> seekers reaching its shores, including towing boats back to sea. The Sri Lankans, who include a seven-month-old baby and a pregnant woman, were allowed to temporarily disembark on the beach at Lhoknga in Aceh Besar at 4am on Saturday, after storms tilted their <b>boat</b> at a 75-degree angle. This followed a tense stand-off between the Sri Lankans and Indonesian authorities, who had previously refused to allow anyone to disembark because they did not have travel documents or passports. Last Thursday police fired a warning shot to "take control of the situation" after five Sri Lankan women, who had earlier called for a</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">doctor to see a sick child and mimed pointing a gun to their temples, clambered ashore and sat on the beach. Indonesian Navy Commander Kicky Salvachdie said: "The Teluk Sibolga navy ship will escort the <b>boat</b> to our border. After that it's up to them." House of Representatives member Nasir Jamil, who met the Sri Lankans, said they had asked for a new ship to continue their journey. With Amilia Rosa</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IMMIGRATION MINISTER PETER DUTTON INSISTS HIS PORTFOLIO PROTECTS THE INTERESTS OF THE VULNERABLE AND INNOCENT There is something uncomfortable about that stare. Drooping more with age, his brown eyes, almond-shaped and set behind hooded lids, never betray his thoughts. Unlike some before him, who preferred a sledgehammer to a gavel when making a point, he is calm, harder to read, but will deliberately provoke to draw out a confession.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a valued skill he did not trade in when he retired his Queensland Police uniform in 1999 after nine years in the service. In the mid-1990s, a lifetime ago now, he was ­assigned to the Brisbane City Support Group when the CBD was at the mercy of drunken louts. There were no cautions or notices to appear back then – not even for a half a joint squashed into a worn-in denim pocket. It was straight to the watchhouse, where they would face questioning by constables Peter Dutton and Stephen Angus.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Angus, who has remained in the Queensland Police ­Service and is now an Inspector based at Toowoomba, says they usually shared the good-cop bad-cop routine but ­Dutton was better at it. Angus tells Qweekend Dutton was “straitlaced”, could smell “bullshit” a mile away and knew how to bring the truth to the surface. If Dutton believed there was a hole in a story he’d doggedly go after it, asking question after question. His blood pressure might have climbed but he rarely lost his temper. He was “by the book”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 20 years on, wiser and more battle-hardened, Dutton, 45, has honed his skills, but in a different guise. Now, the politician has the power to be judge and jury.</p>
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PETER DUTTON IS THE “MINISTER FOR MISERY”. LIKE A ­feudal king, wielding extraordinary power, the Immig­ration Minister determines the fate of thousands of people trying to come to, or stay in, Australia each year. In his ­office, either in Brisbane or Canberra, he reads file after file, deciding whether <b>asylum</b> seekers will come or go, whether long-term residents will be booted out of Australia on “bad character” grounds, or whether he can reunite foreigners with family members already here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On his watch, the navy will enforce the Government’s policy to order boats, often packed with desperate people, to return to the ­country they came from.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Desperate people can make up desperate stories to come to Australia. They might purposely lose their identification, can lie about their circumstances and hide their wealth. The ­former detective sifts through the hyperbole and fabric­ations to find a crumb of truth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration policy in Australia is as toxic as it is polar­ising. In 2008, then-prime minister Kevin Rudd dismantled his predecessor John Howard’s Pacific Solution, which ­ensured <b>asylum</b> seekers were not processed on mainland Australia but transported to detention centres in island ­nations. Rudd, who was then wildly popular with voters, was cheered for his humanity and courage but warned by others about the fallout.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What was to come was a sickening tragedy. From 2008 until the Abbott government came to power in September 2013, smugglers risked the lives of up to 50,000 ­people to bring them by <b>boat</b> to Australia. Each journey costs ­between $10,000 and $13,500. With a turnover of up to $650 million over that period, people smuggling was a ­lucrative business for organised crime groups. The tsunami of <b>asylum</b> seekers ­included at least 8400 children, and at least 1200 people are believed to have died trying to make the crossing during those five years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The emotional and financial drain started to end when Tony Abbott won the 2013 election. The Coalition’s policy is to turn boats back to their point of origin and denies anyone who attempts to make the journey by sea, the right to resettle in Australia. Only genuine refugees facing legitimate fear of persecution are granted an Australian home. Those seeking a better life for their children or more financial security, known as economic refugees, are turned away. The policy is ruthlessly efficient. The boats have all but stopped, although appeals to the High Court continue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton reveals his patience is being tested by the legal battles and he is considering a significant counter-play. “It is frustrating as a taxpayer and it’s doubly frustrating ­because we are paying to defend these actions,” he says. “We have to abide by the law. If we can change the law in ways which give people natural justice and afford them fair access to the legal system, we will always honour that. But in some cases we may need to legislate to stop the endless legal roundabout, and that will enable people to go back to Nauru, back to their country of origin, (or) to a third country.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE AN OPINION OR QUESTIONS about immigration policies. Even children, including ­Dutton’s own. Part of his parenting duties is to explain to his kids why Daddy has made a decision on the reason someone ­cannot stay in or come to Australia. It is such a foreign ­concept to children, who are taught early in life to share and be tolerant.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton, who was briefly married when he was 23, wed second wife Kirilly (nee Brumby) in 2003 and they have two sons, Harry 11 and Tom, 10. He also has a daughter ­Rebecca, now 14, from a previous relationship, and she shares her time between her father and mother.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the occasions when Dutton gets to drive his kids to school, he faces a mini media scrum from the back seat. “But why?” they will ask. “I’ll talk through why I’ve had to make a decision … why I’ve made a decision for that <b>boat</b> to turn around or why we’ve made a decision to take Syrians in but we want to do security checks,” Dutton says. “They’re just willing to listen. Obviously they’ve got young, impressionable minds so they are happy to take advice but they ask questions, ‘but what if you do this?’ or ‘why wouldn’t you do it that way?’ and I think once you talk through the threats beyond our border, the boats restarting up and people drowning and see the images on television coming out of Europe, (they seem to understand).” Kirilly was a personal assistant to recruitment tsar ­Sarina Russo when she met Dutton through one of her friends who was dating Ross Vasta, now the Liberal Member for Bonner. Vasta was running for the federal seat at the time. Working 14-hour days, she had little time for an ­indulgent social life and she says the ­relationship took its time, with their respective ­careers firmly in the forefront.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Kirilly is no shrinking violet. She owns and runs childcare businesses at Bald Hills and Everton Park, in Brisbane’s north, as well as managing their home in the city’s northwest, while Dutton spends almost half the year in Canberra. She would rather her husband leave his work there so when he walks through the front door at home, it’s all about the kids.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She also has a message for those who think they know her husband based on his political profile. “There’s a ­perception out there that he’s fairly serious and hard-line,” Kirilly says. “But he loves a joke. He’s got a great sense of humour. When he and his mother get together, they can have tears running down their faces. It can take him about 20 minutes to tell a story because he’s laughing so much.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He’s more romantic than me,” she adds. “He buys the gift baskets and the flowers.” She has labelled her husband a “frustrated cattle farmer” and a pretty good grower of roses (Dutton has about 20 rose bushes in the back yard).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a young man, Dutton would get his hands dirty at his grandmother’s dairy farm on Brisbane’s northern outskirts, and the manual work and country air led to a “lifelong ­fascination” with farming. When his mind allows it, he still ­daydreams about buying a cattle property.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked how she deals with being a single mother for much of the year, Kirilly points to Defence Force families (many of whom have their children enrolled in her centres). “You can’t ring them in Afghanistan and ask them what they’re doing because they can’t answer you … and they are gone for six months. But with work and all the sport the kids do, it’s not like you sit around and wait for the other person to get home.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PETER CRAIG DUTTON WAS BORN IN BRISBANE ON NOVEMBER 18, 1970, to Bruce, a staunch Catholic, and Ailsa, a Protestant. He was the eldest of five children and the family lived at Boondall, on Brisbane’s northside. They were not rich but they were not poor. Dutton Senior, a builder and bricklayer who had a good business brain, instilled the value of hard work in his eldest son. His mother helped bring in extra cash by minding children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton remembers religious tension in the air at home – maybe that’s why, despite his conservative views, the Right-leaning MP is not overtly religious. Determined to make a quid early in life, he started a paper run, mowed lawns and by Year 7 worked at a local butcher most afternoons and Saturday mornings. “I had a tense relationship (with Dad) because I was a cantankerous teenager, but I never got into trouble. I was always closer to Mum than Dad growing up, but I’m fairly close to both of them now.” One blow early in life was the separation of his parents during his teens. “That had a big impact on me at the time ­because none of my friends had come from a family where the parents had separated. I felt embarrassed about it at the time and angry as well that they weren’t prepared to work through their issues.” Dutton finished high school at the then boys-only St Paul’s Anglican School at Bald Hills and joined the Young Liberals after he graduated. Squirrelling away cash earned from his jobs allowed him at the age of 19 to pay the deposit on his first house, at Yeronga on Brisbane’s southside, bought for about $90,000 with a bank loan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That same year, 1989, he stood for election for the first time as a Liberal candidate against popular Labor MP Tom Burns in the then-safe state seat of Lytton, in Brisbane’s east. He lost. The following year Dutton graduated from the Queensland Police Academy and at 20 he was sworn into the renamed Queensland Police Service, which was still trans­itioning in unsteady post-Fitzgerald Inquiry times. “From an early age I had a sense of doing good and had a firm belief in right and wrong,” Dutton says when asked why he wanted to be a police officer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During this time he also completed a Bachelor of Business degree at <span class="companylink">Queensland University of Technology</span> and, with help from his ­father, built a childcare business from scratch. When he was about 30, Dutton sold two of his three centres to then-childcare king Eddy Groves, who was building his <span class="companylink">ABC Learning</span> empire.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By that time Dutton had resigned from the QPS, but not before one case would ensnare him, and it continues to ­occupy his thoughts. In 1973, toddler Deidre Kennedy was taken from her Ipswich home. Discarded like a rag doll, the 17-month-old was found on the roof of a toilet block in ­Ipswich. She had been strangled, and bite marks were found on her leg. Raymond John Carroll was found guilty of her murder in 1985 but the conviction was overturned on ­appeal. In the late 1990s, new evidence emerged and police placed Carroll under surveillance. Dutton was one of the detectives involved.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another trial date was set on the basis of proving Carroll had lied on the stand in his original trial. He was convicted of perjury in 2000 but he again appealed and won. The prosecution had one more throw of the dice – taking the matter to the High Court, which upheld the decision made by Queensland’s Court of Appeal, saying a conviction would be inconsistent with double jeopardy principles.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2014, after years of lobbying numerous politicians, Dutton convinced former Newman government attorney-general Jarrod Bleijie to overhaul Queensland’s double jeopardy laws in the hope Carroll would be retried.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To this day he keeps in contact with Deidre’s mother, Faye Kennedy, and the case can still bring him to tears. “It still upsets me greatly that justice has been denied to ­Deidre Kennedy and her family,” Dutton says. “I hope one day a prosecution will take place.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IN 2000, DUTTON, WITH ENERGY AND READY TO CONQUER, was preselected for the federal northwestern Brisbane seat of Dickson. He was in for a tough fight, up against star ­recruit Cheryl Kernot, who had defected from the Democrats to Labor. John Howard, extremely fond of Dutton, says he was impressed with the first-time candidate. “He struck me as having a lot of common sense and that’s why I promoted him in his second term,” the former PM tells Qweekend. Dutton was rewarded with the workforce participation portfolio in 2004 and in 2006 became minister for revenue and assistant treasurer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was appointed the minister for health and minister for sport in 2013 in the newly elected Abbott government and then Minister for Immigration and Border Protection in December 2014, which he retained after Malcolm Turnbull became Prime Minister last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Howard says Dutton’s previous life has made him a more formidable and capable politician. “His experience in the police force has been valuable in all sorts of ways,” Howard says. “He’s doing a very effective job (in immig­ration). He’s a great strategist; he can clearly explain and justify the Government’s policies in an effective way. He’s a very good communicator.” There’s an impression Howard believes Dutton has ­further to go – perhaps in more senior economic portfolios – but the former PM doesn’t want to stir trouble during an election campaign. While his colleagues flit around the country, discussing the dry topic of deficits, chewing the fat with farmers, or trumpeting how they are excited about ­innovation, Dutton clings to his dossiers of despondency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">How does he sleep at night? Is he kept awake by the ­images of the children and their families trying to make their way to Australia? How much of a burden is it to decide who comes and who goes?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I sleep very well because when you’re going through dozens of cases, there are many where we do intervene and you know that you’ve changed that (person’s) life,” Dutton says. “(The public don’t find out) and it’s not appropriate that they know about it because they’re personal cases, and they involve peculiar circumstances, and people deserve their privacy. They’re the cases that sustain you through the very difficult decisions you make. Quite often I’ll get (from members of the public), ‘I understand why you’ve stopped the boats and why we have regional processing and we have detention centres, but can’t you do it some other way?’ “And you say, ‘but what’s the other way? What’s the magical formula? We’ve tried other ways but it hasn’t worked’. In this portfolio you’re very quick to realise (in) most cases you’re taking the lesser of two evils as the path forward. There’s never an easy decision to make.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That’s the reality of the brief. I think when you have conversations with people fiercely opposed to the Government’s position, intellectually they understand the concept that we can’t have open borders but emotionally they ­believe that we should. The heart trumps the brain.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In a way you sort of have to remove yourself from that emotion and try to deal with it objectively. For me, the most emotional cases have always involved children, and that was the case when I was a police officer and it is the case again now where you’re just conscious of innocent children being caught up in matters.” In July 2013, there were almost 2000 children in detention. Today there are none. For Dutton, it was a personal triumph. For others, this achievement was dismissed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young could choose to deal with Dutton or his predecessor, Scott Morrison, she would choose the latter. Hanson-Young tells Qweekend Dutton has refused to discuss immigration matters with her, even if she has information or concerns about those held in detention.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My mother always said, ‘if you have nothing nice to say about someone you shouldn’t say anything at all’, but with Peter Dutton I’m willing to make an exception,” she says. “The man is a fool and he has zero ­regard for the lives of the vulnerable people who are ­unlucky enough to find themselves in his care.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“At least, when I became aware of problems that were developing, Scott Morrison was willing to sit down and talk them through with me. Dutton has refused to meet with me and has never shown any concern when I’ve raised ­issues about dangerous situations in his detention centres.” <b>Refugee</b> advocate Ian Rintoul is even more scathing of Dutton. Rintoul accuses the minister of being more focused on the border protection component of his portfolio and ­actively trying to keep people out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Dutton is someone who … is not in full grasp of his Immig­ration portfolio,” Rintoul says. “Most of the answers he gives to questions are three-word slogans.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(Dutton’s) ­recent comment (‘There is no question … that many ­refugees are illiterate and innumerate, who would take Australian jobs and leave taxpayers with a large welfare bill’) indicates that he’s simply not suited to the ­portfolio,” Rintoul says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THIS YEAR AUSTRALIA WILL RESETTLE 13,750 REFUGEES UNDER its humanitarian program. A further 12,000 people ­displaced by war-torn Syria and Iraq also will be given a new home, although the processing of security and health checks has been extremely slow. Fewer than 200 have ­arrived in Australia since Abbott made the decision last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Many advocates point to Canada for resettling 25,000 Syrian refugees in only four months. On the flip side is ­Europe, which is now at the mercy of an almost biblical ­exodus of <b>asylum</b> seekers to Germany, Turkey and Greece.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor’s Graham Perrett holds the marginal seat of Moreton in Brisbane’s south, a vibrant African and Vietnamese community and home to the Kuraby Mosque. About one in three of its residents was born overseas. ­Perrett has held the seat since defeating the Liberals’ Gary Hardgrave in 2007.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton’s comments about migrants being illiterate and innumerate have upset voters, says Perrett, who is spending his days doorknocking his electorate in the lead-up to next month’s federal election. Perrett believes it was no slip of the tongue but part of a plan “to speak to an audience” that is susceptible to dog whistles. “Well, I’m not sure who wrote the script … although it wasn’t well-crafted. I don’t think (Dutton’s comments were) spontaneous. He is an ­experienced politician, he’s a Cabinet minister.” Asked to give a character assessment of his political foe, Perrett says, “He’s definitely a spear thrower on the floor of <span class="companylink">Parliament</span>. (But when he’s not in <span class="companylink">Parliament</span>) he has a human side, he has an off switch. I’ve always been able to go to him and talk about individual cases.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think he’s bound by his party’s cruel policies, but he always gives me a fair hearing.” Former Australian Medical Association president Dr Steve Hambleton offers a similar observation. Dutton was opposition health spokesman when the Queensland doctor was at the helm of the powerful national professional ­association and at that time, Dutton condemned the then Rudd government’s big-spending, personally controlled electronic health ­record.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I found (Dutton) straight and very direct (but) you’ll never get him to tell you what his brief is,” Hambleton says. “He said that once in government, he would order a review, but when faced with the facts (Dutton) became a ­supporter of e-health.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He changed his mind. He was a ­sceptic, and (then) ­convinced Cabinet (to go the other way).” Hambleton says he stridently disagreed with the government’s mechanism to encourage more patients to better engage with their healthcare. That was the wildly unpopular and damaging co-payment announced in the 2014 Budget. He says he couldn’t believe a government could stuff things up so badly and told Dutton the <span class="companylink">AMA</span> wouldn’t support it. About that time, Hambleton’s two-year term was up, and Professor Brian Owler was elected in his place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Owler, who does not wish to comment on his dealings with Dutton, swung the bat. GPs were incensed and went on a daily attack, warning that the vulnerable and the poor were in the crosshairs of a Government simply trying to save money. The acidic policy corroded the Coalition’s standing with voters, many of whom viewed the Budget as a collection of cruel, broken promises.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After several months, Dutton warned his good mate ­Abbott that there could be a problem and that the Government should consider dumping the policy. Abbott told him if he couldn’t do his job, he should resign. Dutton held the party line and was later moved to the Immigration portfolio. The GP co-payment was dumped.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THERE APPEARS TO BE A RECURRING THEME HERE. DUTTON has a relentless, almost old-fashioned motivation to protect women and children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Such chivalry, however, does not come at the expense of the hard-line brief. He believes his days on the beat have inoculated him from the shock and awe others faced when handed the portfolio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In November last year, before Dutton left for Zaatari in Jordan, “home” to 80,000 people languishing in the world’s second-largest <b>refugee</b> camp, former immigration minister Philip Ruddock advised him to brace himself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ruddock warned me that it would be a life-changing experience,” Dutton says. “I was moved by it and it was emotional. I was more moved by having met some of the families who were actually on their way to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’d been into Afghanistan before and I’d seen terrible poverty in indigenous parts of Australia and some terrible family situations in my previous life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So it was confronting and it was moving because people are living (in the camps) with no hope and with no future, with no certainty, and they are making the most of what they have.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Everything within you wants to do what you can for your children. You want to make their life better than what yours has been and give them more opportunities than you were afforded. And all of that is off the table (for those in the camps), and for many of them, when you spoke to them, they wanted to return to Syria.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That was really confronting. Why would you want to go back to a country that had been destroyed? But in the end, that’s their homeland.” “I think he’s a product of his belief system,” says ­Dutton’s former police colleague Stephen Angus. “He is strongly conservative in his old-world values. He’s very, very loyal.” Then Angus offers this observation: “It is like (Dutton) was born in the 1950s”. But as his one-time mentor John Howard says: “There’s nothing 1950s about ­wanting to help women and children. I would hope we all want to help women and children.”Peter Dutton is the Liberal federal member for Dickson, which includes parts of the <span class="companylink">Brisbane City Council</span> , Pine Rivers Shire and Moreton Bay Region local council areas. He holds the seat with a margin of 6.7 per cent. He is being challenged by former ALP Queensland attorney-general and minister for justice, Linda Lavarch. Lavarch will be featured in Qweekend next week.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A BOATLOAD of 44 Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b> seekers was last night due to leave Indonesia, where they have been stranded for a week, headed for Australia after Indonesian authorities said they would give them a navy escort out to sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The group, which includes a pregnant woman and nine children, has said it wanted to go to Australia. But its journey, which began 1700km away in India, was hampered by bad weather, causing them to pull into Aceh, on the northernmost tip of Indonesia, to shelter and fix the <b>boat</b>’s engine.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>337 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FEDERAL ELECTION</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
PETER Dutton has flagged overhauling laws to stop <b>asylum</b> seekers repeatedly appealing to courts to stay in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a move that will infuriate the Greens and test Labor’s discipline, the Immigration Minister has revealed he is considering turning to legislation to end the expensive drain on taxpayers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton has revealed he is frustrated by “activists” and pro bono lawyers who drag out proceedings. In the past three years alone, the cost of defending legal action taken by <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b> and on bridging visas in the community has reached more than $24 million. There are about 30,000 people on bridging visas in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In an exclusive interview in today’s Qweekend, Mr Dutton opens up about his family, his job, and a potential new direction for migration policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is frustrating as a taxpayer and it’s doubly frustrating because we are paying to defend these actions,’’ Mr Dutton said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We have to abide by the law. If we can change the law in ways which give people natural justice and afford them fair access to the legal system then we will always honour that.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But in some cases we may need to legislate to stop the endless legal roundabout and that will enable people to return back to Nauru, back to their country of origin, back to a third country. They’re the decisions we have to take if we are re-elected and it may involve legislation.” Last year, <b>asylum</b> seeker M68 (brought to Australia from Nauru in August 2014) sought to test whether the regional processing framework was valid in the High Court. The Court held 6:1 it was valid, providing a victory for the Government.That one case cost the taxpayer more than $1 million to defend. But now, M68, through her pro bono lawyers, and with her husband and child, has taken her case back to the High Court. That case is now called M23.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Stranded refugees set off to Australia</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CINDY WOCKNER </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>243 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A BOATLOAD of 44 Sri Lankan <b>asylum</b>-seekers was last night due to leave for Australia from Indonesia – where they have been stranded for the past week – after Indonesian authorities said they would give them a navy escort out to sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The group, which includes a pregnant woman and nine children, said they wanted to go to Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When their journey, which began 1700km away in India, was hampered by bad weather, they docked in Aceh, on the northernmost tip of Indonesia, to shelter and fix the <b>boat</b>’s engine.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesian authorities have denied them the right to disembark as they have no travel documents, however they have been permitted to moor the <b>boat</b> to get supplies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Police fired a warning shot in the air late on Thursday when several women jumped off the <b>boat</b> (pictured).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Late yesterday, Acehnese Governor Zaini Abdullah visited the <b>boat</b> after the group was given seven tonnes of fuel, food and water, as well as medical treatment, to set them up for their onward journey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Abdullah described the result as a “win solution”, as a bulldozer was brought in to push the <b>boat</b> off the beach. He said the navy would escort the vessel from Indonesia back in the direction of India.The <b>asylum</b>-seekers, however, have said they are heading to Australia. They are understood to be from the Tamil minority, which is persecuted in Sri Lanka.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>TPVs part of the set menu: Ruddock</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROSIE LEWIS RACHEL BAXENDALE, ADDITIONAL REPORTING: JOE KELLY, EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>544 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Howard-era immigra­tion min­ister who introduced temp­or­ary protection visas to Australia’s border-protection policy, Philip Ruddock, has warned that future governments cannot “pick and choose” from the Coalition’s suite of measures that have stopped the people-smuggling trade.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Speaking to The Australian, Mr Ruddock, who is also the nation’s first special envoy for human rights, said TPVs were established in the late 1990s to restore integrity to a program that had been “abused” by people for their own benefit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I would describe it as having been part of the recipe for dealing with unauthorised border arrivals,’’ he said. “I don’t think you can see these measures — TPVs, <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore processing — as being a menu from which you can pick and chose.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“What will happen if you get rid of it? It builds up expectations in the minds of those people who are seeking to engage people-­smugglers that you’ll get a better outcome then you might otherwise have received. The smugglers are out there: they’re not interested in helping people find sanctuary, they’re interested in making a ­living for themselves. They’re running a business.” His comments came amid an argument over TPVs, with Labor’s policy to grant permanent residen­cy to the caseload of ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers that arrived during the Rudd and Gillard years should it win the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There was a backlog of 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers who had arrived by <b>boat</b> before the 2013 election and their claims began being processed a year ago after TPVs were reintroduced in December 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just 1230 <b>asylum</b>-seekers have been granted TPVs but the processing of about 12,000 applications is under way. Of those, more than 3500 have been deemed to be owed protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Scott Morrison, who was immig­ration minister in 2014 when the Abbott government ­revived TPVs in a bid to clear the 30,000-strong caseload, warned yesterday that the “madness” began when former prime minister Kevin Rudd scrapped the measure in 2008. “And the fact that the Labor Party are going to not learn from that lesson and they voted against the restoration of temporary protection visas ... and remain doggedly to the position they will abolish them if they come back into government, that tells the people-smugglers every single thing they need to know about a Labor government on border protection,” the Treasurer said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull said the Rudd government had made a “tragic and shocking error” in abandoning the Howard government’s policies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor Party platform deter­mined at its national conference last July states: “Labor will abolish TPVs, which keep people in a permanent state of limbo (and) commit to processing people as quickly as possible and placing those found to be genuine refugees on permanent protection visas.”Bill Shorten, who faces a bitter internal revolt against his plan to continue <b>boat</b> turnbacks and offshore processing, lashed out at the government for starting a “fear campaign” on something that had been Labor policy for almost 12 months. He declared there was nothing “temporary” about the situ­ation of those living on TPVs.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>BOATS BRAVADO JUST BOLLOCKS - SHORTEN SINKS IN <b>REFUGEE</b> QUICKSAND</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SIMON BENSON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>814 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As in war, in an election campaign the first casualty is truth. And it has been well and truly massacred in this one. By both sides.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the greatest fiction would have to be Bill Shorten’s claim Labor’s <b>asylum</b> seeker policy is the same as the Coalition’s.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is a falsehood that will have potentially significant consequences after July 2 if Labor is elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Needless to say, <b>boat</b> arrivals are an issue that ignites the extremes on either side of politics. And it is one that still confounds the rest of us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is the moral struggle that Labor, like many people, has yet to come to terms with.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For this reason alone there is understandably little confidence that Labor in government would maintain the Coalition’s border protection architecture in dealing with boats. Of course many Labor voters don’t want them to.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it was Labor’s unwillingness to do so in 2008 that created the catastrophe we now face in trying to process the remaining 30,000 arrivals of the 50,000 that came after Kevin Rudd ’s ill-fateful decision to junk the Pacific Solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten is now asking voters to believe that he will not do the same. The problem is that he ­already has.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first thing Rudd did, after promising not to, was to scrap Temporary Protection Visas. They were reintroduced by Tony Abbott in 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now Shorten is vowing to scrap them again. The Coalition claims this is a first step in unravelling a broader policy that has been spectacular in its success. It is a reasonable claim. There is no question that the Abbott government’s remedies to the Labor disaster were controversial.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Human Rights lawyers and <b>refugee</b> advocates were naturally outraged. But Operation Sovereign Borders achieved the aim of stopping would-be refugees drowning at sea — as 1200 did during the Rudd-Gillard years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Living, you would think, is a primary human right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TPVs were, and are again, one of the three pillars of the policy that stopped the boats, alongside offshore processing and turning back boats at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten has said Labor would continue to support offshore processing. Despite having been given no mandate by the ALP National Conference last year to do so, he has also vowed to adopt <b>boat</b> turn backs — if and when it was safe to do so.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The irony for Shorten is that on the issue Labor is at its weakest, he has been at his strongest. It was remarkable that he was able to pull Labor back somewhere toward the centre on <b>asylum</b> seekers in the first place.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The trouble is what happens after July 2 if he is elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is abundantly clear that the majority of his colleagues are uncomfortable with the leader’s position.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been written in this column before but it is a dilemma that Shorten can’t escape.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He will be under immediate and significant pressure from within to change policy as prime minister. But to do so would be to compound a catastrophe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration officials and ASIO officers are still struggling with the assessment of the 30,000 people still in limbo from the Rudd flood.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The system would be overwhelmed should new arrivals start flowing back in via the same <b>boat</b> transit ways, often without identification or travel documents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the one thing that is a present danger now that wasn’t in 2008 is ISIS. This has been a game changer for border protection, as Europe has witnessed. The Coalition argues, rightly, that it has never been more critical to national security that the people smuggling ventures are not restarted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten has said very little about border protection during this campaign other than to sound tough by claiming to be on a unity ticket with the Coalition. But he knows as well as anyone on the government side, that even tougher measures will be necessary and are already in the pipeline post-election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the Coalition wins, it knows it has a moral obligation to finally deal with the legacy caseload left by Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This will mean a ramping up of returns — and possible legislation to put this into ­effect — and resettlement to third countries for most of them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is where it gets tricky for the government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It must achieve a solution to the fate of these 30,000 people, mindful that any First World resettlement options could create pull factors for new <b>boat</b> ventures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only way to achieve this will be to bolster even further the ring of steel around Northern Australia — deploying more navy and customs assets to the region to turn back boats.This will require a moral toughness that many in the Labor caucus do not have the stomach for, even if Shorten himself does.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Carve-up makes for mystery</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Nick Butterly </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Standing on a footpath in the northern Perth suburb of Girrawheen, WA Liberal backbencher Luke Simpkins is confused.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is doorknocking four weeks from the Federal poll.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is a tough job. Most people simply don’t answer the door. Those who do seem only dimly aware an election is imminent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there is this place. Is it a house? It seems more a compound of some kind and there are some unfamiliar flags and symbols out front.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Still, there could be an undecided vote inside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So Mr Simpkins picks his way down a driveway to a backyard shed with The West Australian in tow.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the yard, there is a Burmese monk piling diced chicken into huge pots for a feast. It is not a house after all but a makeshift Buddhist temple.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Htay Win is welcoming but wary of saying whether he has views on the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Not really. I’m a monk,” he says diplomatically.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The northern electorate of Cowan is one of the most ethnically diverse Federal seats in WA.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It boasts large populations of Lebanese, Afghans, Bosnians and Vietnamese.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Vietnamese vote is so big Mr Simpkins has gone to huge lengths to tap into their concerns.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The former soldier is now even banned from going to Vietnam after making several visits there to meet jailed political figures.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He tells rollicking tales about secret police following him and of cloak and dagger meetings with dissidents on his last trip to the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cowan is a key WA battleground seat this election. It might even be the frontline, if you buy the prevailing logic that the new seat of Burt will fall to Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Cowan had one of the most savage redistributions the <span class="companylink">Australian Electoral Commission</span> made last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Simpkins’ margin fell from a safe 7.5 per cent to 4.5 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He lost the normally Liberal suburbs of Kinglsey and Woodvale and saw the electorate shift east to take in Labor leaning areas such as Kiara and Lockridge.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I didn’t think it would work out this way,” Mr Simpkins says of the carve-up. “Normally the major roads are significant boundaries and they (the AEC) just tended to make some very odd decisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That’s the way it is. That’s the luck of the draw.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Simpkins appears to have strong local recognition and claims many understand he had a central role in the move to dump Tony Abbott as prime minister.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The shift in the electorate has left him working many new and unfamiliar areas and he concedes it will be tough to hold on.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We all need to be realistic and if it doesn’t go well, it will be one of those count and recount, turning out the scrutineers in the days afterwards,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor selected Egyptian-born academic and Islamic radicalisation expert Anne Aly for the seat, which surprised Liberals and some from Labor’s Right.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were mumblings some of Dr Aly’s past questioning of the Government’s national security regime would be interpreted as being “soft” on terrorism and could be used against her in the hothouse of an election campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It hasn’t really come up,” Dr Aly says. “It’s not like I knock on the door and people say, ‘Oh you are that Muslim woman’.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She says the size of the electorate means the issues vary greatly from suburb to suburb. “There are certain things that bind the whole electorate — health and education issues,” Dr Aly says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“But transport needs are different in each area.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dr Aly appears disciplined and well-drilled in Labor’s talking points.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She is on message with Labor’s policies over <b>asylum</b> seekers, <b>boat</b> turn-backs and offshore processing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Dr Aly comes to the campaign having built a solid profile as a semi-regular commentator on ABC’s talkfest Q&A and for <span class="companylink">The Guardian</span> website, it remains to be seen if that will count for much in suburbs such as Girrawheen.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020160616ec6h00030</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160616ec6h0001t" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Commentary</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Controversial commercial becomes a case of bang-bang, hard sell, silver-haired Katter</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>561 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CUT & PASTE Taking aim at your opponents is not just a figure of speech in Katter country</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Political correctness gone mad! Mad Katter, that is. David Koch takes on the candidate’s controversial ad, Sunrise, Seven, yesterday: Bob, stop, stop, stop, stop. Just shooting a couple of people in a video, don’t you think that crosses the line?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Katter fires back, yesterday: I thought it was screamingly funny and, David, you don’t realise how stupid your remark is with all due ­respect. Let me finish, please, you’ve tried to cut me off four times. A <span class="companylink">Nestle</span> milk boy ad is almost identical; we’re going to go and ban all the <span class="companylink">Nestle</span> milk boy ads, are we? The political correctness council are out there; what is not out there is what is on that poster: Australia not for sale.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull, on the campaign trail, yesterday: The advertisements were in the worst of taste and Mr Katter should apologise and withdraw them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More gun trouble? The Townsville Bulletin, yesterday: According to federal member for Kennedy Bob Katter, at age 18 he was handed a rifle and, as a member of the 49th Battalion — “father’s battalion” — was at the forefront of Australia’s wars with Indonesia and Vietnam. Never mind in 1963 when Robert Carl Katter was 18 Australia was not yet at war with either and he wasn’t even in the army.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is now. The Australian’s Joe Kelly reports, yesterday: Bill Shorten is poised to soften Australia’s border protection policies by granting permanent residency to nearly 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers ­eligible who arrived by <b>boat</b> under the former Labor government … This would see Labor providing its own legacy caseload of <b>asylum</b>-seekers with a clear pathway to permanent residency.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That was then. Bill Shorten campaigning in Queensland, May 8: When it comes to people-smuggling and turnbacks and not having ­onshore processing by people who are smuggled here by criminal syndicates, we are not for turning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the science was settled! The <span class="companylink">World Health Organisation</span> will have that cup of coffee after all, ABC News, yesterday: The International Agency for ­Research on Cancer had previously rated coffee as “possibly carcinogenic” but changed its mind. It says its latest review found “no conclusive evidence for a carcinogenic ­effect” of coffee drinking and pointed to some studies showing coffee may actually reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What was that about running out of water? The Sydney Morning <span class="companylink">Herald</span>, yesterday: Sydney’s major dams may spill by early next week if the catchment areas receive even moderate rainfall from the coming weekend’s … storm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Victim-blaming. New Matilda figures who’s at fault in Orlando, and who’s at fault is us, yesterday: In a 1997 essay in Feminist Issues, As’ad AbuKhalil argues that current Islamic opposition to homosexuality is a result of Western influence …</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The truth is out. Sydney’s Inner West Courier looks at Grayndler’s minor party candidates, Wednesday: Mr Grenfell said the Socialist Equal­ity Party’s campaign in Grayndler will focus on exposing the right-wing pro-capitalist politics of the Greens …</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ottawa tackles the big issues. Headline, Fairfax’s Daily Life, yesterday: Canadian lawmakers vote to make national anthem gender neutral</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>nedc : Commentaries/Opinions | ncat : Content Types | nfact : Factiva Filters | nfcpex : C&E Executive News Filter</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160616ec6h0001t</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160616ec6h0001l" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Life</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Baking down barriers</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tessa Akerman </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>636 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Pop-up cooking classes offer pupils a taste of life as a <b>refugee</b></p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Apparently Melburnians are a little obsessed with food.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s plenty of evidence, such as the “food porn” festival this year in which people submitted their best food photos for a gallery exhibition, while this week the Victorian government boasted about hosting next year’s award ceremony for the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards (scooping Sydney, the betting favourite).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So while we indulge ourselves, debate about how much to tip, photograph the food and post on social media, it’s good to know we’re sometimes feeding the soul as well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And no, not just by drinking fair-trade coffee and Karma Cola and eating sustainably caught fish but by actively supporting a social enterprise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Taking the concept of fundraising for a cause to a new level is Free to Feed, a pop-up cooking school offering classes run by ­<b>asylum</b>-seekers and refugees, sharing food and stories of their former homeland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A former businesswoman in Tehran, Mahshid Babzartabi, hosted the first class, held last Sunday in Fitzroy. Her aim, she says, is not only to teach Australians how to cook basic Persian food but also to help them understand why people flee their home country and their livelihoods.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I didn’t feel safe as a person and not free as a woman and not valued as a human being,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The class ran from 6pm to 9pm and while it is possible to have too many cooks, in this case the kitchen was so large and the work so straightforward — chopping onions, peeling potatoes — it was more a case of many hands making light work.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We learned to make a beautiful eggplant dish, mirza ghasemi; jewelled rice; and a lamb and lentil stew called khoresht e gheymeh, served with saffron potatoes. Dessert was ranginak, a dish consisting of fried flour, spices and butter layered with dates, crushed walnuts and pistachios … an acquired taste, perhaps.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If I re-created the menu at home and wanted to eat dinner at a decent hour, I would think about starting first thing in the morning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As it was, we finished dining off our labour around 9pm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There were a few teething troubles during the class, which can happen when you’re not cooking in your own kitchen: working out how to get one of the gas burners relit, not enough potato peelers and too much oil in the deep fryer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But they had a forgiving crowd and Babzartabi was a hit.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Babzartabi left behind her life and family in Iran and came to Australia by <b>boat</b> three years ago as an <b>asylum</b>-seeker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She is still waiting to find out whether Australia will welcome her but the dozen or so people taking part in the class certainly did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Babzartabi says there are not many opportunities for <b>asylum</b>-seekers looking for paid work besides those involving unskilled labour. She volunteered with a community church after her release from immigration detention, but Free to Feed is her first paid employment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s not only fun but it gives me an opportunity to start building friendships with Australian people,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Co-founder of the project, community worker Loretta Bolotin, says she and her husband Daniel want to identify talent in the <b>refugee</b> community and create an enterprise people can support.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b>-seekers are usually surrounded by people trying to teach them, whether it is English or how various systems work in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The fact that our instructors get to teach us is a really profound shift,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In this instance they’re sharing their skills. Food is a really beautiful way of sharing culture.”Free to Feed cooking classes run on Sundays until early next month. http://freetomelbourne.org[http://freetomelbourne.org]
</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gfod : Food/Drink | gcat : Political/General News | glife : Living/Lifestyle</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160616ec6h0001l</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020160616ec6h00025" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Caught totally Greens handed</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANILE MEERS & MEGAN DRAPALSKI </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>492 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Greens have been sprung handing out Labor “how to vote” cards to North Sydney voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph yesterday caught a Greens volunteer giving voters Labor propaganda at a Crows Nest pre-polling booth after Labor left the booth unmanned for the majority of the day. It was the first irrefutable evidence the two parties are working together to turf out the Turnbull government.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And it comes as Labor leader Bill Shorten desperately tries to convince Australians the two parties are not interlinked — even though he has spent the week lurching to left on issues like public access to offshore processing centres for <b>asylum</b> seekers and a treaty for Aborigines. Labor’s campaign headquarters last night insisted there was no deal between the parties to assist each other on booths, despite the images captured by The Daily Telegraph.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor candidate for North Sydney Peter Hayes confirmed he had called on the Greens to assist because Labor was down on volunteer numbers yesterday, but said there was no formal relationship.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Booth crews need to have a good relationship with each other. It makes their volunteer duty better if there’s no animosity and there’s no room for that in modern politics,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Greens candidate Dr Arthur Chesterfield-Evans said his priority was for the Greens to win votes over Labor, but was open to helping out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“If Labor can’t do it on their own and they need numbers then that’s what we’ll do,’’ he said The Telegraph this week revealed the bulk of Labor’s legacy caseload of illegal <b>boat</b> arrivals would be settled in Australia because Temporary Protection Visas would be abolished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To make matter worse for the under siege Opposition Leader, high-profile Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said “no one believes” Labor would not do a deal with the Greens in the event of a close election: “If we wake up on July 3, on Sunday morning, and Labor are short of forming government be a seat or two, are they honestly trying to tell people that they’re not going to want to enter into a negotiation?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They’re going to send everyone back to an election, or indeed hand it over to the Liberals? It’s just crazy, isn’t it, no one believes it.” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday seized on growing speculation, even claiming Greens would form part of a Shorten cabinet.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Who will be in Bill Shorten’s ministry?” he said. “What portfolio will Adam Bandt demand as part of the deal with the Greens?”Mr Shorten yesterday tried again to hose down suggestions his party could form a government with the Greens. “Labor will form a government and one thing is for sure, we’re not going back into any form of coalition with the minor parties or the Greens,’’ he said. “I’m not worried about the Greens.”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gcat : Political/General News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | sydney : Sydney | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | nswals : New South Wales</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020160616ec6h00025</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-COUMAI0020160616ec6h0000b" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SEEING <b>BOAT</b> SIDES OF BILL</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Matthew Killoran </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>142 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE Coalition has ramped up its rhetoric on boats and borders, as Immigration Minister Peter Dutton yesterday blasted Labor’s plan to scrap temporary protection visas as “a green light to people smugglers”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten (pictured) dismissed the claims as “old lies and fear”, saying they would not affect Labor’s <b>boat</b> turnback policy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton attacked Mr Shorten’s proposal to abolish temporary protection visas for the backlog of 30,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers who have arrived by <b>boat</b>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That’s a green light to people smugglers ... the people smugglers will be filling boats like there’s no tomorrow,” Mr Dutton said.Mr Shorten said Labor’s plan to abolish TPV’s had been on the public record since July last year and it would retain its policy of stopping the boats.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghutrk : Human Trafficking | gpol : Domestic Politics | gtraff : Trafficking/Smuggling | gcat : Political/General News | gcom : Society/Community | gcrim : Crime/Legal Action | ghum : Human Rights/Civil Liberties | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document COUMAI0020160616ec6h0000b</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020160616ec6h0005m" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PM cops climate caning</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Ellen Whinnett </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>193 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LABOR’S candidate for the safe Liberal seat of Kooyong has linked CFA volunteers being killed fighting fires with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s position on climate change.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Candidate Marg D’Arcy took to social media after Mr Turnbull promised to legislate to protect Victorian CFA volunteers from a union takeover.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“So where was Malcolm Turnbull when the CFA were fighting fires and losing lives due to the ravages of climate change,’’ she tweeted on June 5.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms D’Arcy has previously linked climate change with the 2011 earthquake that triggered a tsunami in Japan, asking “how many tragedies will it take before we sit up and take notice of climate change and recognise that we cannot keep plundering the Earth and expect no consequences.’’ A further look through her <span class="companylink">Twitter</span> account and blog shows she has previously observed that “Australia is not the only sexist backwater”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And infuriated at Labor and Liberal policies of enforced <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> turnbacks, she rewrote the national ­anthem, opening with: “Australians hang our heads in shame, for we are cruel and mean’’.Labor’s campaign headquarters declined to comment.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gtsun : Tsunamis | gclimt : Climate Change | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gdis : Disasters/Accidents | gearth : Earthquakes/Volcanic Activity/Landslides | genv : Environmental News | gflood : Floods/Tidal Waves | gglobe : Global/World Issues | gntdis : Natural Disasters/Catastrophes | gpir : Politics/International Relations | grisk : Risk News</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020160616ec6h0005m</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020160615ec6g000b5" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>LABOR'S MESSAGE TO <b>ASYLUM</b> SEEKERS: WELCOME</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS & SIMON BENSON, ELECTION EXCLUSIVE </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thousands of <b>boat</b> arrivals to get permanent residency</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BILL Shorten will give permanent ­residency to thousands of <b>asylum</b> ­seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> under the Rudd-Gillard government if he becomes prime minister on July 2.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has also left the way open for a softening of the Australian Border Force and making changes to Operation Sovereign Borders, set up by the Abbott government to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The revelations come as the depth of internal hostility to the Opposition Leader’s promise to turn back boats has been revealed, with more than 50 Labor candidates having opposed the plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among them is the Labor leader’s ­national security adviser, Mike Kelly, now a candidate for the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro and a likely minister in a Shorten government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph can reveal a Shorten government would give most of the 30,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers eligible for temporary protection visas after ­arriving under the previous Labor ­regime a pathway to gaining permanent residency in Australia.ELECTION COVERAGE PAGES 6-7</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document DAITEL0020160615ec6g000b5</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160615ec6g0008v" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TheNation</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>ALP plans ‘permanent residency for 30,000’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>340 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>ASYLUM</b>-SEEKERS</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is prepared to give permanent ­residency to thousands of <b>asylum</b>-seekers who arrived by <b>boat</b> under the Rudd-Gillard government, it was reported last night.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The party is also said to be ­mulling changes to Operation Sovereign Borders, the Abbott government initiative credited with stopping the people-smuggling trade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Daily Telegraph reportedthat a Shorten government would give most of the 30,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers eligible for temporary protection visas after ­arriving under the previous Labor ­regime a pathway to gaining permanent residency in Australia as part of a policy to abolish temporary protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><b>Asylum</b>-seekers granted the temporary three-year visas by the government would have their temporary measures torn up by a Shorten government and given full work rights, the Telegraph reported.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Labor campaign spokeswoman told the Telegraph the plan to end TPVs would apply to the legacy caseload. “For this group of people all TPVs do is place them in a prolonged state of uncertainty and on the government tab,’’ the spokeswoman was quoted as saying. “John Howard recognised this, that’s why in 2004 he changed the rules to allow people on TPVs to apply for a visa to stay permanently.” Labor was also reported to be refusing to rule out changes to the Australian Border Force, or Operation Sovereign Borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The pledge to end uncertainty for the legacy <b>asylum</b>-seekers comes as the depth of internal hostility to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s promise to turn back boats has been revealed, with more than 50 Labor ­candidates now running for election having formerly opposed the plan.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Among them is the Labor ­leader’s national security adviser Mike Kelly, now a candidate for his old seat of Eden Monaro and a likely minister in a Shorten government, who had aggressively fought the Coalition’s policy of turning back boats at sea.Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last night told The Daily Telegraph Labor’s border security policy was now “weak, equivocal and constantly changing”.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Megan Gorrey   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>677 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>16 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A002</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Machete attacker jailed for rampage By Megan Gorrey</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The machete used by Imran Hakimi.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A man brandishing a machete who randomly hacked at cars and struck at the throat and face of two strangers in a violent late-night rampage in Canberra's north has been sentenced to three years behind bars. Imran Hakimi, 32, yelled and made threats as he attacked cars with the machete and a paring knife during the 40-minute ordeal that began at the corner of Cameron Avenue and Chandler Street in Belconnen before midnight on November 13 last year. Hakimi ran towards the front passenger side of one woman's vehicle and hit at the window and door frame with the machete, court documents said. He then opened the door and held the knife against the woman's throat,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">causing a shallow cut to her throat which drew blood. The woman managed to unbuckle her seatbelt and escape as Hakimi began to attack a taxi. He struck the bonnet with the knife, before opening the driver side door, and yelling: "I have lost my kids, I will stab you, you black c---." Hakimi then struck at the taxi driver, cutting the man's chin. The driver grabbed his wrist and pulled him into the vehicle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both passengers got out of the taxi, pulling Hakimi to the ground and restraining him. A nearby security guard and another bystander ran to help, and Hakimi was held at the scene until police arrived. Hakimi was arrested and later pleaded guilty to a string of charges linked to the rampage, including intentional wounding, possessing a weapon with intent, and property damage. Prosecutors told a hearing last month Hakimi's actions towards people "just going about their business" had been aggressive, agitated and forceful and in close proximity to his victims, although there was no evidence it was pre-planned. Hakimi's defence team argued his behaviour was out of character and</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">he had been in a highly charged, emotional state at the time. Justice John Burns said some of Hakimi's behaviour could only be described as "bizarre" as he handed down his sentence in the ACT Supreme Court on Wednesday. But he acknowledged the rampage happened against a backdrop of Hakimi's ongoing mental health problems, which included major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol consumption earlier that night. The court heard Hakimi had fled the traumatic surrounds of his childhood home in Afghanistan, travelling through Iran and Indonesia before arriving in Australia by <b>boat</b> as a <b>refugee</b> aged 16. He spent four years at Woomera immigration detention centre in</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">South Australia where Justice Burns acknowledged he experienced significant psychological trauma. "I have no doubt those matters continue to trouble you today," he said. Justice Burns noted Hakimi had also been distressed by family law court proceedings that were afoot, but pointed out the victims he targeted that night were not known to him in any way. He had been drinking with neighbours in the hours before the rampage and Justice Burns accepted he was probably under the influence of alcohol at the time of the attack. Hakimi claimed to have no memory of the incident which, if true, suggested a high level of intoxication, the judge said. He believed Hakimi had reasonable to good prospects for rehabilitation and was unlikely to reoffend, particularly if he continued to seek help for his mental health problems and avoided consuming intoxicating amounts of alcohol. Justice Burns accepted Hakimi had expressed remorse and his offending was out of character, citing a witness statement describing him as "a caring human being" who had been significantly affected by his family problems at the time. But he said the seriousness of the offending, even though the injuries inflicted on the victims were relatively minor, meant a term of imprisonment was the only option. Justice Burns sentenced Hakimi to three years behind bars with a non- parole period of 22 months. He will be eligible for parole in September 2017.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten veers left on treaty, <b>asylum</b> boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAVID CROWE POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>993 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>15 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has sparked a political storm over sudden policy moves that appeal to the Labor left, as he breaks with bipartisanship on ­indigenous recognition and ­demands more transparency on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader launched the new disputes with Malcolm Turnbull on two key policies, despite previously trying to close ranks with the Coalition on both issues, surprising his opponents by marking out new positions that could help Labor defend itself against the Greens.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister accused Mr Shorten of undermining the ­bipartisan goal of recognising indigenous Australians in the Constitution by airing his support for a treaty for Aborigines, a contentious idea that could wreck efforts to build community support for a successful referendum.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton then went on the offensive over Mr Shorten’s call for greater media access to offshore detention centres, warning that the Opposition Leader was trying to “play to the left” despite claiming to support stronger border protection measures. Observers said Mr Shorten was sending a “not-so-coded” message to progressive voters who might drift to the Greens on indigenous affairs and <b>asylum</b>-seeker policy, as Labor ­defends one flank while attacking the Coalition on the other.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opening the new fights in the final weeks before the election, Mr Shorten told the ABC’s Q&A on Monday night that he backed a treaty. “Do I think that we need to move beyond just constitutional recognition to talking about what a post-constitutional recognition settlement with indigenous people looks like? Yes I do,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When asked if that settlement could look like a treaty, Mr Shorten said: “Yes.” He cautioned against any “gotcha” question and said there could be a discussion about a treaty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten held his ground yesterday, saying he was “up for a conversation about a treaty” and accused the Prime Minister of starting a political fight over the matter.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The remarks appeal to Labor and Green supporters who have called for a treaty, supported by Bob Hawke in 1988 and now by leaders including Warren Mundine, who chairs the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both major leaders faced challenges in navigating indigenous ­issues when asked whether the white settlement of Australia could be called an “invasion” — a dispute that dates back decades.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Well I think it can be fairly ­described as that,” Mr Turnbull said. “Obviously our first Australians, Aboriginal Australians, describe it as an invasion.” Asked a similar question on Monday night, Mr Shorten said: “I wouldn’t exactly call it a welcome.” Yesterday’s dispute over a treaty saw Mr Turnbull try to intensify pressure on Mr Shorten by suggesting the Opposition Leader needed to show more “discipline” in his remarks. “You’ve got to be very careful not to set hares running that undermine the real goal, which is to secure overwhelming consensus of Australians, an overwhelming majority for constitutional recognition of our First Australians,” Mr Turnbull said. “That should be our objective and it should be Mr Shorten’s objective and he should ask himself whether his remarks of last night advance that goal or perhaps put it at risk.” Mr Mundine confirmed his support for a treaty but would not enter the political dispute over Mr Shorten’s move, arguing there was room for both debates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor senator Pat Dodson, a leader of the reconciliation movement, countered the Prime Minister by saying a treaty could be discussed in parallel with indigenous recognition. “Mr Turnbull should lead on these matters, not follow,” he said. “Bipartisanship is critical to going forward on the pathway to reconciliation. These issues aren’t mutually exclusive. We need to talk about both.” ANU politics professor John Wanna questioned the need for a treaty when it was difficult to agree on constitutional recognition. “The era of treaties is past; we’re now a mature democracy where indigenous people have the same rights as others but not the same life chances. That’s not going to be fixed by a treaty,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Professor Wanna said Mr Shorten’s moves on indigenous affairs and <b>asylum</b> seekers appeared to be shaped in part by internal dynamics. “These are all issues where he is sending not-so-coded signals to sections of the Labor Party and keeping them in the tent,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“And it is also about defending Labor against the Greens.” The storm over border protection policy came after the Opposition Leader told Q & A he wanted an end to secrecy surrounding offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. Asked if that meant he would be willing to see journalists allowed into the detention centres, he said “yeah” but added a caveat. “When I say that, I do that on the basis that I don’t want to see the people smugglers back in business,” he said. “The short answer is if I was PM it would have to be an amazing set of circumstances where we’re not prepared to tell you what was going on. I haven’t got all the security agencies in front of me but, as a general rule, this nation operates best if you treat people as smart and intelligent and tell them what’s going on.” The government declared Mr Shorten was soft on border protection. Mr Dutton said: “What he’s trying to do is play to the left of his party to say that they will have a different policy after the election.” Scott Morrison said it was up to Nauru and Papua New Guinea to decide. “He just doesn’t understand how it works,” the Treasurer told 2GB radio.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“For a start Nauru and Papua New Guinea are sovereign governments and they’re the ones who actually ultimately decide what happens in these issues.”Publishers and the journalists’ union have warned against increasing control of the media in its coverage of <b>boat</b> turnbacks and detention centres.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160614ec6f0005u</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-GCBULL0020160613ec6e0002r" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees left at sea</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>128 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A BOATLOAD of Sri Lankan men, women and children bound for Australia have returned to waters off Aceh, Indonesia just hours after being given fuel and told to leave, authorities say.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At least 35 <b>asylum</b> seekers, including 17 women and five children, were trying to get to Australia when the <b>boat</b>’s engine failed on Saturday off Lhoknga in Aceh, on the northwest tip of Sumatra island.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Authorities would not allow them to land, instead telling them to anchor about 300m offshore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are more than 13,000 refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers registered with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> in the archipelago, and detention centres in Indonesia are over their capacity.The Australian Government says it has “stopped the boats”, a claim disputed by the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document GCBULL0020160613ec6e0002r</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-TWAU000020160613ec6e00040" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Today</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A stir-fry of novel surprises</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>665 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The West Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TWAU</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016, West Australian Newspapers Limited </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Conflicted heroes, weird sorts, conmen and teenage outcasts inhabit these latest releases, writes Shirley Stephenson</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">J ason Ginaff is the weirdest hero in a long time. A computer nerd who investigates job candidates’ online secrets, he has panic attacks, sweats profusely and has the most wavering moral compass imaginable. In Black Teeth (Text Publishing Company, $30), Aussie author Zane Lovitt (which sounds like a pseudonym but isn’t) has created a scenario in which Jason, or whichever alias he is using, attempts to avenge a murder, reunite with his previously unknown father and save a homicidal recluse from himself. Jason is a liar and a weathercock, blown wherever the next influence takes him and as anti as an anti-hero can be. A strange but fascinating book.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another strange character, ambiguous at first, is Joe Hill’s The Fireman (Hachette Australia, $30/ebook $15). Hill acknowledges J.K. Rowling, P. L. Travers and sci-fi guru Ray Bradbury as inspirations for the apocalyptic thriller and you can see where he’s coming from. A mysterious spore which causes those affected to emit smoke and eventually spontaneously combust, while embellishing their skin with the beautiful dragon scale, has turned much of the Earth into a scorched wasteland. Harper, a nurse, falls pregnant and in love with the mysterious fireman. They are drawn into a cult, which uses the magic of the scale to enthrall for good — and evil. Hill draws the reader in with a fascinating, sometimes gory and very human story of redemption.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Plea (Hachette Australia, $30) is a polished piece and only Irish writer Steve Cavanagh’s second novel. Featuring Eddie Flynn, a likeable character and master conman turned Robin Hood-style defence lawyer, it takes us at nail-biting pace through the travails of a young internet billionaire accused of murdering his girlfriend after he unwittingly created an undetectable money-laundering algorithm for an outwardly respectable New York legal firm. The CIA has dirt on Flynn’s estranged wife and blackmails him into representing the young entrepreneur — and forcing him to plead guilty. But Flynn is sure he didn’t do it and uses his wit and conman skills to try to get him off. With cartels, crooked cops and assorted psychopaths, this is an assured and entertaining sequel with credible twists.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Young adult writer Robin Wasserman’s Girls on Fire (Hachette Australia, $30) should not be dismissed by older readers. The story of teenage outcasts Lacey and Dex, the eponymous Girls, and how they form a tight-knit bond — them against the world, when some terrifying things happen to teens in their small-town US home and Lacey is suspected of witchcraft. A compelling study of complex relationships skillfully told in turns by the girls and “Them” — the various, bumbling, ne’er-do-well or downright evil adults — this is compelling reading which is chilling and touching in turns. Recommended.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dragonfish (No Exit Press, $18/audio book $26), by Vu Tran, is the story of American-Vietnamese cop Robert Ruen, whose mysterious wife Suzy came over on a <b>refugee boat</b>. When Suzy leaves him for wife-beating organised crime boss Sonny and then disappears, Sonny coerces Ruen into going off-radar to find her. But Sonny’s motives aren’t good. It is told partly in flashback letters. Interesting for its depiction of blended subcultures and intricate plot, Dragonfish leaves the reader unsettled.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Divided Spy (HarperCollins, $38 hardback), by Charles Cumming, features <span class="companylink">MI6</span> bad boy Thomas Kell in a curiously old-fashioned thriller. Who knew that the Russians could still be the villains in this Fatwah-infested genre? Kell manages to turn a Russian agent by blackmailing him over a homosexual affair. That the agent was responsible for the death of Kell’s lover adds to the complexity. The divided of the title refers to the conflicted Kell, who is never sure if he is on the right track in this psychological saga.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gbook : Books | gcat : Political/General News | gent : Arts/Entertainment</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>waustr : Western Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>West Australian Newspapers Limited</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document TWAU000020160613ec6e00040</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-CANBTZ0020160613ec6e00017" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Sri Lankan <b>boat</b> on way to Australia is marooned</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Jewel Topsfieldin Jakarta   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>384 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A007</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan <b>boat</b> on way to Australia is marooned By Jewel Topsfield in Jakarta</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <b>boat</b> with 44 Sri Lankans who claim to be headed for Christmas Island remains marooned in bad weather off the Indonesian province of Aceh. Indonesian authorities have provided the Sri Lankans with food, but will not let them disembark because they do not have passports or valid travel documents. "There is one who showed something like a <b>refugee</b> document but it is not from the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span>," the head of the Aceh immigration office, Achmad Samadan, said. "It read Sri Lankan <b>refugee</b> identity card and on top of it is writing that read Government of Tamil." The <b>boat</b> was spotted by local fishermen off the coast of Lhoknga, in the district of Aceh Besar, at 11am on Saturday. There were 44 men, women and children claiming to be from Sri Lanka on board, including one pregnant woman. The Sri Lankans claimed they had been forced to stop en route to Australia because their engine had been overheating, although Lhoknga military commander Major Darul Amin said a team of technicians sent to examine the engines found nothing wrong. The Sri Lankans, who told the Indonesian authorities they had come from India, were reportedly keen to continue their voyage to Australia and Indonesia wanted them out of its waters. However, Mr Achmad said the <b>boat</b> was still off the coast of Aceh because the weather was bad. He said it had requested 7000 litres of diesel, but the Indonesians couldn't give them such a "huge amount". "We told them we could only provide 1000 litres but they rejected that," Mr Achmad said. "I have talked with my colleagues from the Home Ministry but no decision has been reached. We agreed that we must bring this issue to the governor." The <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> has indicated it is ready to assist with services if asked to do so and the <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span> is also in communication with the government. Indonesia is not a signatory to the <span class="companylink">UN</span> <b>refugee</b> convention and refugees cannot legally work there while waiting for resettlement in a third country. There are 13 immigration detention centres in Indonesia, most of which are overcrowded.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Louisa Loveluckin Istanbul   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>462 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A007</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Civilians drown fleeing besieged city By Louisa Loveluck in Istanbul Smoke rises after airstrikes by US-led coalition warplanes as Iraqi security forces advance their positions in Fallujah, where refugees are fleeing across the Euphrates. Photo: AP</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Civilians fleeing Islamic State-held Fallujah were trapped on the bank of the Euphrates River as families gave tragic accounts of watching relatives drown in its waters. Around 50,000 civilians are trapped in the IS stronghold as Iraqi forces and allied militias prepare to storm the city. Aid groups said on Sunday that a crowd was swelling along the riverbank, waiting to cross to safety. For Nuriya, a 50-year-old mother of five, that journey ended in tragedy. Separated from her family in the scramble to board a <b>boat</b>, she had watched helplessly as her daughter-in-law flailed in the water, losing hold of her children one by one. "People jumped from the other side of the river and saved some of those who were drowning, but not my son's two girls and his boy," she said. In a sign of the escapees' growing desperation, the vessels have at times been fashioned from household items. Reports last week suggested a toddler had drowned after her parents tried to send her to safety in an empty refrigerator. The <span class="companylink">Norwegian <b>Refugee</b> Council</span> said 4000 civilians had fled Fallujah in 24 hours and that more were expected to follow through the night. Fallujah, which saw some of the heaviest fighting of the US-led military intervention, fell to IS in 2014. US-trained Iraqi special forces are now within 3km of the group's remaining fiefdom inside the city centre, but progress is being slowed by IS's extensive tunnel network and roadside bombs. Escapees say conditions inside the city are desperate. "We've witnessed tragedies nobody should ever witness," said one woman in the Norwegian <b>refugee</b> camp. "We used to eat animal food." Supply routes to Fallujah were largely cut after government forces recaptured nearby Ramadi and the desert to the north. Nuriya's son remained inside the city. Recalling a phone conversation in which she broke news of his children's death, she broke down. "Return back," she said he insisted. "Both the dead and the alive". "I couldn't even return his dead children to him. If we went, we'd die of hunger, mortars and shelling. His poor children hadn't eaten in two days." The Iraqi army said it had secured the first "relatively safe" exit route, offering an alternative to flight across the Euphrates. It is receiving support from Shiite militias. Hundreds of civilians are believed to have been tortured after being captured by the militiamen. Telegraph, London</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gdis : Disasters/Accidents | gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>canbrr : Canberra | apacz : Asia Pacific | auscap : Australian Capital Territory | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | austr : Australia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160613ec6e00015</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-AUSTLN0020160612ec6d00042" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>World</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>‘More Oz than ever’</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>VERITY EDWARDS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>197 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS HIEU VAN LE, AC</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Vietnamese <b>refugee</b> Hieu Van Le feels more Australian than ever, and on a return trip to his country of birth he has talked about his passion for fairness, equality and his adopted home.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The South Australian Governor, 62, who travelled from Vietnam to Malaysia and then Darwin in 1977 on a small fishing <b>boat</b> crammed with 42 people, has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his service to the state, the development of cultural and economic links in Southeast Asia and the advancement of multicultural inclusion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He returned to Vietnam on a trade mission last week. He grew up there surrounded by bombs, and soldiers and lost friends, neighbours and family members.“Standing here, of course it was where I was born, where my childhood memories were, where I grew up, it’s where I inherited my culture. The people look like me, speak like me, but I feel more Australian than ever. This honour sends a message that this country has the ability and willingness and spirit for ­giving people a fair go,” Mr Le says.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>vietn : Vietnam | austr : Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indochz : Indo-China | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document AUSTLN0020160612ec6d00042</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-ADVTSR0020160612ec6d0006y" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Governor’s living the dream</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MILES KEMP </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>490 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HIEU VAN LE, AC THE Queen is still trying to find time to meet her most celebrated South Australian subject, but His Excellency the Honourable Hieu Van Le has just added another few letters to his name on the invitation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He is now a Companion of the Order of Australian, named in today’s Queen’s Birthday Honours list, and the highest honour available in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most South Australians know His Excellency as the state’s most successful <b>refugee</b>, after having arrived in Australia as a <b>boat</b> person fleeing the Vietnam War in the 1970s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Officially the latest honour has been awarded for his many community roles culminating in his ascendancy to the highest post in the state in 2014.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is not something you seek, but I am extremely privileged to have been given this honour,’’ Mr Le said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This one for me is very special but I feel so humble, because I have had the opportunity to meet with so many people from all walks of life and in every corner of the state and every time I hear their stories I am reminded about all the quiet achievers out there.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am extremely honoured and also humbled because this is the highest award in Australia,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Le said he never thought his life in Australia would become so rewarding when making the long journey by <b>boat</b> from Vietnam to Darwin Harbour with his wife Lan when he escaped the communist regime of Vietnam.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“You are dreaming, I would have said if someone told me that. I would laugh at them and tell them not to be so silly because this is a fairytale, and I still have that feeling every day,’’ he said. “I am profoundly honoured and amazed at how life turned out.’’ Mr Le hopes to finally get the chance to meet the Queen in October. He said the award and his role as Governor continued to surprise him. “The level of respect the role receives is very surprising, because I never thought an ordinary person like me coming from the bottom of society could command such respect from everybody. Also I have been surprised at the ability for the role to make a powerful statement to encourage and inspire people, for example the victims of bushfires.’’ Mr Le served as Lieutenant Governor from 2007 to 2014, was Chairman of the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnics Affairs Commission from 2006 to 2014, patron and member of more than 200 community, education and cultural organisations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has honorary doctorates from <span class="companylink">Flinders University</span> and the <span class="companylink">University of Adelaide</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Officially Mr Le’s latest gong has been awarded for “eminent service to the people of South Australia, to the development of cultural and economic links with Australia’s near neighbours, to the advancement of multicultural inclusion, and as a supporter of the arts and education”.PAGE 18: EDITORIAL</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>ghonl : Honours List/Decorations | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations | gpol : Domestic Politics</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | saustr : South Australia | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document ADVTSR0020160612ec6d0006y</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-HERSUN0020160612ec6d0009b" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>News</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Herald Sun FEDERAL ELECTION ISSUES SURVEY</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>473 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With every vote expected to count on July 2, tell the leaders what you think on the important issues including debt, spending, national security, negative gearing, <b>boat</b> people, childcare rebates and roads and rail funding. Complete our survey and return it free for the chance to win a $100 Woolworths voucher.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CIRCLE 1 FOR YES OR 2 FOR NO 1 Should businesses get a tax cut?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YES 1 N0 2 2 Should reducing the deficit be prioritised over spending more to boost services?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YES 1 N0 2 3 Should negative gearing be restricted to new homes?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YES 1 N0 2 4 Should boats carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers be turned back if safe to do so? YES 1 N0 2 5 Should <b>asylum</b> seekers be held offshore while they are being processed? YES 1 N0 2 6 Should ground troops be sent into the war on Islamic State? YES 1 N0 2 7 Should taxpayers pay more to help families cover childcare costs? YES 1 N0 2 8 Should Australia become a republic?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YES 1 N0 2 9 Should the building and construction watchdog be reinstated? YES 1 N0 2 10 Should there be a royal commission into the banking sector? YES 1 N0 2 11 Should Australia reintroduce a carbon tax?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YES 1 N0 2 12 Should transgender awareness be taught in primary schools? YES 1 N0 2 13 Should same-sex marriage be legalised?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YES 1 N0 2 14 What should the government prioritise; an East West Link road or Metro rail tunnel?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CIRCLE ONE NUMBER ONLY EAST WEST 1 METRO 2 15 Which of these issues do you consider most important?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CIRCLE ONE NUMBER ONLY Keeping Australia safe from terror 1 Getting the Bugdet back to surplus and reducing debt 2 Action on climate change 3 More funds for schools/health 4 Boosting employment 5 Protecting Australia’s borders 6 Improving our roads and rail services 7 16 And finally, just a few questions about you.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Are you male or female?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">MALE 1 FEMALE 2 17 Are you aged: 34 years or younger 1 35-49 years 2 50-64 years 3 65 years or older 4 18 Which political party do you tend to support or feel comes closest to representing your opinions?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CIRCLE ONE NUMBER ONLY Labor 1 Liberal 2 The Nationals 3 The Greens 4 Some other party 5 Don’t know 6</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COMPLETE THIS SURVEY AND RETURN VIA FREE POST BY FRIDAY NO STAMP REQUIRED Send to: Election Issues Survey Reply Paid 14774 Melbourne Vic 8001</p>
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TERMS & CONDITIONS: heraldsun.com.au/competitionsThe survey results will be published as soon as the results are collated by an independent research company</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Jewel Topsfieldin Jakarta   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>527 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A007</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan <b>boat</b> intercepted in Indonesia en route to Christmas Island By Jewel Topsfield in Jakarta</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <b>boat</b> with 44 Sri Lankans, including a pregnant woman and nine children, who said they were on their way to Australia, have been found off Aceh, a northern province of Indonesia.Local fishermen discovered the <b>boat</b> at 11am on Saturday in Lhoknga in the district of Aceh Besar. Lhoknga police chief Zainudin told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> the Sri Lankans did not</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">have any passports or travel documents."They said they wanted to go to Australia but there was engine trouble. They didn't look like people who needed food. Their faces looked happy. They didn't ask for food either." He said the <b>boat</b> appeared to be a modified fisherman's <b>boat</b>, made of iron, which had a capacity to carry 100 passengers. Mr Zainudin said the Sri Lankans remained on the <b>boat</b>, about one</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">kilometre off shore. "Actually we wanted them to leave now but the wind is very big as well as the waves. "So I think we have to wait until the weather is better then they will have to leave Lhoknga waters." The chief of immigration in Aceh, Ahmad Samadan, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> the 44 Sri Lankans - 20 men, 15 women and nine children - had asked to continue their journey to Christmas Island. "We are trying to negotiate with them to advise them to return to their</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">country and not to continue to Australia," he said. International Organisation for Migration Jakarta spokesman Paul Dillon said the <span class="companylink">IOM</span> had been approached by authorities on Saturday advising it of a vessel in Lhoknga with mechanical problems that had foreign nationals on board. "We indicated we were prepared to assist with the provision of services <span class="companylink">IOM</span> normally provides and we are just waiting to hear back," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span> said it was co-ordinating with the Indonesian government. As of January there were 13,679 refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers registered with the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> in Indonesia, many of whom have been stuck in transit for years. Australia resettled 808 refugees from Indonesia in 2013, according to <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> figures. This dropped to 526 in 2014 and 425 in 2015. Last year the people of Aceh</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">helped hundreds of Rohingya <b>asylum</b> seekers who were fleeing persecution in Myanmar during the <b>refugee</b> and trafficking crisis. Local communities donated clothes, soap, rice, instant noodles and money and helped provide shelter. The head of the Tamiang Farmers and Fishermen Association, Muhammad Hendra, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> at the time that the Acehnese remained grateful for the assistance provided by others in the wake of the 2004 tsunami.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"In all of those disasters, we were helped by outsiders, both by non- Aceh people and by foreigners," he says. "The help was provided without looking at our background, such as our religion. "So now, we have the Rohingya and Bangladeshi people stranded on our land, they've been weeks, maybe months at sea and it's worse than what we experienced with the tsunami." with Amilia Rosa and Karuni Rompies</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gimm : Asylum/Immigration | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>indon : Indonesia | srilan : Sri Lanka | austr : Australia | chr : Christmas Island | apacz : Asia Pacific | asiaz : Asia | ausnz : Australia/Oceania | devgcoz : Emerging Market Countries | dvpcoz : Developing Economies | indsubz : Indian Subcontinent | sasiaz : Southern Asia | seasiaz : Southeast Asia</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Federal Capital Press of Australia Pty Ltd</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document CANBTZ0020160612ec6d00001</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-SMHH000020160612ec6d0000p" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>World</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Indonesians intercept Sri Lankan <b>boat</b> en route to Australia</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Jewel Topsfield Indonesia Correspondent Jakarta </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>449 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <b>boat</b> with 44 Sri Lankans, including a pregnant woman and nine children, who said they were on their way to Australia, have been found off Aceh, a northern province of Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Local fishermen discovered the <b>boat</b> at 11am on Saturday in Lhoknga in the district of Aceh Besar.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lhoknga police chief Zainudin told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> the Sri Lankans did not have any passports or travel documents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They said they wanted to go to Australia but there was engine trouble. They didn't look like people who needed food. Their faces looked happy. They didn't ask for food either."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the <b>boat</b> appeared to be a modified fisherman's <b>boat</b>, made of iron, which had a capacity to carry 100 passengers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Zainudin said the Sri Lankans remained on the <b>boat</b>, about one kilometre off shore.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The chief of immigration in Aceh, Ahmad Samadan, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> the 44 Sri Lankans - 20 men, 15 women and nine children - had asked to continue their journey to Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are trying to negotiate with them to advise them to return to their country and not to continue to Australia," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We are trying to reach their <b>boat</b> again today but so far we can't because of high waves."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said the <b>boat</b> engine was experiencing problems and they had to stop every few kilometres to let it cool down.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"When they stopped at Lhoknga they were spotted by locals."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lhoknga military commander Major Darul Amin said immigration would not allow the Sri Lankans to disembark because they did not have travel documents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said technicians had been sent to examine the engines but they turned out to be fine. "I think it was just a modus operandi," Major Darul said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We will go back to their <b>boat</b> today (Sunday) at around 3pm and if they do need food or gasoline we will provide it. Then they have to leave our waters."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">International Organisation for Migration Jakarta spokesman Paul Dillon said the <span class="companylink">IOM</span> had been approached by authorities on Saturday advising it of a vessel in Lhoknga with mechanical problems that had foreign nationals on board.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We indicated we were prepared to assist with the provision of services <span class="companylink">IOM</span> normally provides and we are just waiting to hear back," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dillon said the <span class="companylink">IOM</span> had offices in Lhoknga, Medan and Aceh and was well placed to assist with translation and medical services and providing logistical support to local authorities in deciding where best to place the people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The <span class="companylink">UN <b>refugee</b> agency</span> said it was co-ordinating with the Indonesian government.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>MAKING A GO OF NEW LIFE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Cindy Wockner </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A group of refugees saved from death at sea by the controversial Tampa are now contributing in many ways to their new home in Brisbane, writes Cindy Wockner</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">GHULAM Amiri smiles warmly. Was it worth it, the terrifying days at sea in a broken down <b>boat</b>, fearing death at every wave, rescued by a Norwegian freighter then weeks spent at the centre of a political firestorm and two years in detention limbo on Nauru?</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Of course it was worth it, to have a beautiful life, having a business and being successful, of course it was worth it. This is my country,” Ghulam says with genuine affection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I am happy, very happy with the life we have here. It is a luxurious life rather than living in a war-torn country.” Najib Amin says there is no word to describe how grateful he is. “This country has given us work and freedom and love and respect that I would never have had in Afghanistan. I can’t say how lucky I am and how lucky my children and my wife are in this beautiful country,” Najib says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rahmatullah Sharifi feels the same. He has travelled Australia working and says he has met only compassionate and kind people. Australia has been good to him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And Farid Ahmad Abdullah? He loves the place. His three small children were all born here.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the love wasn’t always there for these new arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They are the people Australia didn’t want, the people then prime minister John Howard declared would never set foot on our soil – the 438 Afghan <b>asylum</b> seekers Australia tried its hardest to reject.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, as the 15th anniversary of the controversial Tampa affair approaches, Agenda has spoken with some of those <b>asylum</b> seekers who have forged successful lives for themselves in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They were a political football back then, on the eve of a federal election. A decade and a half later, on the eve of another federal election, <b>asylum</b> seekers are still a political football as both sides remain determined to stop the boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton recently gave his opinion on why increasing our <b>refugee</b> intake is not a good idea: “ ... they (<b>asylum</b> seekers) won’t be numerate or literate in their own language, let alone English”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These people would be taking Australian jobs … and for many of them that would be unemployed, they would languish in unemployment queues,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The incongruity of how these two things would happen at once has not been explained. But numerous studies point to positive contributions of refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Experience suggests that refugees in Australia engage heavily in job searching and vocational education, often accept work below their levels of experience and education and commonly undertake voluntary work,” a 2013 study commissioned by the Multicultural Development Association found.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A report for the Immigration Department on the contributions of humanitarian arrivals points out that five of the eight billionaires in Australia in 2000 were of humanitarian settler background.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beata Ostapiej-Piatkowski, the community engagement co-ordinator at the Romero Centre, a <b>refugee</b> and <b>asylum</b> seeker support agency in Brisbane, says many <b>asylum</b> seekers arrive here well-educated and are an investment in our society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They work, they do volunteering, they want to give back to the community, they have a culture of generosity,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Dutton’s comments saddened people like Ghulam, Najib, Rahmatullah and Farid. Fifteen years ago they fled Afghanistan and certain death from the <span class="companylink">Taliban</span>, went to Pakistan and paid a people smuggler to get them to Indonesia to catch a <b>boat</b> to Australia. In August 2001 they were among 438 people loaded onto a wooden vessel in Indonesia, heading for Christmas Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ghulam Amiri was just 18 when he left northern Afghanistan with a burning desire to find safety. But for three days the tiny wooden fishing <b>boat</b> the smugglers put them on was battered by the ocean after its engine failed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">People cried, screamed and prayed. “The waves were coming like a mountain, it was not small waves,” Ghulam recalls. He thought he would die.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Najib Amin still can’t fathom how they survived. He was so sure they would all perish that he threw off his life jacket, saying it would be useless.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Had the Norwegian freighter, the Tampa, not come along when it did, responding to a mayday call from Australian rescue authorities, all 438 on board would likely have died.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rahmatullah Sharifi says that only hours after they were rescued and taken on board the Tampa, the storm whipped up the seas even more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the Tampa the <b>asylum</b> seekers believed the ordeal was almost over and that within hours they would be unloaded at Christmas Island and embarking on the next phase of a journey to a new life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia was having none of it, ordering the Tampa and its Captain Arne Rinnan to take them back to Indonesia. Rinnan was equally determined that would not be happening, as his human cargo languished on the Tampa’s deck, using buckets for toilets, many sick and dehydrated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Farid Abdullah says they had no idea their story was front page news or why they were being turned away from Christmas Island. They were confused and thought they were being sent to Norway when in fact the word was Nauru. They were shown photos of palm trees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We were heartbroken,” Farid remembers. The <b>asylum</b> seekers asked why. The answer was blunt. “The Australian Government doesn’t want you, they want to send you there and process you there (Nauru).” He remembers vividly the day Australian commandos, armed and pointing weapons at them, boarded the Tampa and ordered them to the navy ship, the HMAS Manoora. Everyone was so scared.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Loaded onto the Manoora however they remained there, in the sunless bowels of the <b>boat</b> for 20 days, as politicians and officials argued over their fate and authorities rushed to complete a detention centre on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru. For two years the group was held on Nauru. Their time in detention was, they say, dreadful.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New Zealand accepted more than 130 of them, others went to Europe and only a very small handful – less than 30 – ended up in Australia, having been granted five-year temporary protection visas.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rahmatullah Sharifi remembers flying into Brisbane in 2003, their group loaded onto a bus and driven out a secret exit of the airport to avoid the waiting media. Australian officials suggested it was best not to talk to the press.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">From the moment he got to Australia Rahmatullah wanted to work. For the first three months in Brisbane he couldn’t find a job. Everyone asked for a resume. He didn’t have one, he’d never needed one. So, after some English classes, he ventured into the countryside and moved around Australia picking fruit, saving as much as he could. Several years later he moved back to Brisbane and drove a taxi.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the same time Najib Amin, who had also been fruit picking, was working as a boilermaker. The pair decided to investigate a car wrecking yard that was for sale at Chermside.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I didn’t know anything, he knew a little bit and not much. We just took a chance because we knew this was a good business in my country,” Rahmatullah says of their combined knowledge of the car business. So, with their savings and with a $20,000 loan from an Australian woman who had cared for them when they first arrived at the Romero Centre, they bought the yard in 2008. Four years later they’d paid her back every cent. They say she never asked for this.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“When we bought (the business) we struggled a lot. We didn’t know how to run it, we did it hard. We worked really hard. We used to be here (the wrecking yard) at 5 o’clock.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We bought an old tow truck and we used that to collect cars until 8-9 o’clock at night,” he says of the early days of the business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Eight years later the business is still thriving and employs five people. Humayun Neikzada, known as Nick, works for them. He was 17 when he left Ghazni and ended up on the Tampa. He initially went to Perth before moving back to Brisbane and recently married. “We employ four to five people. We pay taxes. We pay GST and we pay super. I am not taking from the Government, I am giving back to the Government,” Rahmatullah says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The only time Rahmatullah says he received anything from <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> was the first three months after arriving in Australia when he struggled to find work. Since then he has never been back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2007 Rahmatullah’s wife and young son, whom he had left behind in Afghanistan, joined him in Australia. The oldest is now 17 and hopes to study medicine. The two little ones were born in Australia and are five-and-a-half and three.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Najib too left his wife and child in Afghanistan. He was 21. They arrived here in 2007 and the couple have since had another two children. He feels blessed to be in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have been working since I have entered this country. Now I am working and I am employing about 10 people here,” Najib says. Only recently his accountant tallied up how much tax he has paid in the past six years. Najib says he was shocked. He now also owns a second wrecking yard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Najib says it’s unfair to blame <b>asylum</b> seekers for illiteracy. Many come from wartorn regions where schools are closed or bombed and they have never had an opportunity to be educated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he first arrived Ghulam Amiri, then 20, made a point of going to TAFE and learning English before finding a factory job and working as a labourer. He started a car yard at Stafford and in 2013 he moved to Coorparoo where he now runs a second-hand car yard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have never been to <span class="companylink">Centrelink</span> since I first came here. I probably had one month when I first came and since then I have worked and paid taxes,” Ghulam says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says all the Afghans he knows who have come to Australia are hardworking people fleeing war and persecution. “They didn’t come here to stay on benefits, they came here to get a job and work.” In 2003 Ghulam married in Pakistan and his wife Nasrin moved to Australia in 2009.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The couple now has four children, aged seven to one, and he works for their future.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Back home in Afghanistan Farid Abdullah worked in his family’s grocery wholesale shop. When he got here he was desperate to do any work but for eight months he lucked out because potential employers wanted experience.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He told them he was young and strong and he would learn and eventually got a job at a chicken factory before becoming a taxi driver.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It is not true to say that we don’t want to work. When we came, the next day we were thinking, where do we get a job.” Farid eventually saved enough money to buy himself a tow truck and now works for himself. He married on a trip home and his wife is now in Australia with him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">They have three small children, six and two years and four months. “My message is please don’t treat people so harshly. Treat people as humans,” Farid says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">cindy.wockner@news.com.auThey work, they volunteer, they want to give back</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He beat the odds to win his first Federal election in 2004. Since then Michael Keenan has been quietly building his profile. Amanda Keenan (no relation) finds out what keeps him up at night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">H e squirms a bit when you mention it. Gets a little pink in the cheeks. Laughs a nervous laugh. “Yes ... yeah,” Michael Keenan stammers. “Um, well, I’m always a little bit embarrassed about that to be honest ...”</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was June 2012 and the then shadow border protection minister was giving an impassioned speech during a parliamentary debate on the offshore processing of <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Maybe it was the heavy cloud of emotion that hung over the chamber that day, or perhaps it was the fact he’d not long become a dad. But as he recalled his time as deputy chair of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the 2010 Christmas Island tragedy, in which about 50 <b>asylum</b> seekers were killed, he cried.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“One of the Australians told me that he looked face to face at a child who he could not rescue even though he could almost touch her, and that child perished, ” he said, struggling to compose himself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It wouldn’t be the sort of thing I’d normally expect to do, making a speech in parliament,” the minister, still a little sheepish, says now. Surely people were impressed with his honesty? He chortles awkwardly. “Not everyone, I don’t think.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he says he was so affected by the evidence he heard during 2011’s inquiry, and that day’s debate “really brought it home”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Boats leave Java, never seen or heard of again, and unfortunately because that’s the case, it doesn’t necessarily give you the immediacy. But as soon as you look at the pictures of that, of people being smashed against the rocks — there were kids on that <b>boat</b>, babies on that <b>boat</b>. It was just a horrible, horrible occurrence. Anyway, I didn’t expect it but when I went up to make that speech it just sort of came over me. You don’t get a lot of authentic moments in the parliament, I suppose.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s not the kind of emotion you’d expect from a member of a party often criticised for its approach to <b>asylum</b> seekers. Still, he’s unapologetic about the Coalition’s stance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Look, I think it’s almost the worst part of public policy because no good intention in this area goes unpunished,” Michael says. “And every time you think you might be doing the right thing, you’re actually doing the wrong thing. The position we’ve taken, and I know it’s controversial but I couldn’t be more adamant that it’s the right thing to do. There’s a characterisation about the politics of this ... that it’s a gift to the Coalition, that border security plays on dark fears. None of that is the reason that we have this policy. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is the right thing to do. 1200 people at least, dead. We can’t accept that.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s quick to defend two of the Left’s least-favourite Libs: former Immigration Minister and now Treasurer Scott Morrison and the nation’s current border bouncer Peter Dutton. “If you’re the immigration minister, you’re vilified. Peter is, Scott was ... the Labor ministers had a hard time. It’s a very difficult portfolio ... the decisions you’re making are important decisions — life and death decisions — and at the same time you’re always under enormous public pressure.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When I told people I was interviewing Michael Keenan they said one of a few things. “Are you related to him?” (Nope); “That billboard must cost a fortune” (My word it must) and “Geez ... that’ll be fun” (It actually was).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thanks to said mega-head billboard (staring down at you 24/7 from the intersection near City West), relentless campaigning (he took the impossible-to-win Labor seat of Stirling in 2004), a well-known family name emblazoned on real estate signage all over town (Mt Lawley’s Irving & Keenan) and now high-profile portfolios (Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter Terrorism) his recognition rate is pretty high for a politician.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what you don’t get from the choreographed press conferences with the Federal Police and the straight-faced strut into parliament and the noddy behind the PM, is any sense of his personality. Only the few journos and other desperadoes watching that parliamentary debate that day back in 2012 would have seen the human face of a guy who, it turns out, is not just genuine but also a nice bloke.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Fellow Federal Liberal MP Christian Porter, the former WA attorney general, said his friend and colleague is “one of the funniest people in politics”. “I don’t mean that he does a good stand-up routine, he’s just got a really sharp wit, his ability to tell a story is second to none, like he’s a real raconteur in a way,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“(Michael has) quite an old-fashioned approach to politics ... because he never takes criticism too seriously and always manages to stay level-headed and calm and cool. But he’s very studious and serious ... he does a massive amount of work, which is why he’s one of those rare near-on mistake-free politicians. But he knows it’s a job and you do the best you can and the best you can is always of limit, so he’s very rational about his approach to it all.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The lanky 44-year-old is something of a celeb in the sprawling electorate of Stirling, where his relative youth, undeniable earnestness and strong work ethic have helped him own the seat. Nobody on either side of politics expected him to beat Labor’s Jann McFarlane — who he describes as a “very nice lady” — as a first-time candidate in 2004 (although Mark Latham’s unpopular leadership saw ALP candidates punished by the electorate).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The pitch was ‘Do this for the party now and ... obviously it stands you in good stead later down the track’,” he recalls. “It was considered to be a bit of a community service. But we worked very hard.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The former adviser to Amanda Vanstone and Alexander Downer and deputy director of the WA party traversed the electorate in a tiny white Hyundai, knocking on doors. Election week odds had the sitting member at $1.40, with Michael a rank outsider at $2.50. “That was a good campaign. If you look back it was actually amazing what we managed to achieve. There was not a box we didn’t tick.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2007, when Kevin Rudd rolled long-time PM John Howard, an election day Westpoll predicted Michael would fall to popular Labor candidate, the former SASR soldier Peter Tinley. He fended him off, and apparently sent a message, too. “I remember it well. That was a tough one. Winning was tough in 2004, 2007 was very hard to maintain. Since then ... well, the Opposition hasn’t tried as hard since then.” The ALP has recently preselected construction worker Robert Pearson for Stirling, which is considered a safe Liberal seat going into next month’s election with a margin of 9 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was during that first campaign that Michael met his now wife. In a truly Liberal love story, pretty, straight-talking brunette Georgina Bower was working as a volunteer for then Senator Chris Ellison and helping out on the Stirling campaign. Michael waited until after the election to ask her out. “It’s not a particularly romantic story,” he says. “I don’t think she’s too keen on it, either.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he will admit his proposal, which involved a seaplane flight to Jonah’s restaurant at Whale Beach on Sydney’s northern beaches, was romantic. They married at the same place in 2010.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael says Georgina knew what she was in for: the often lonely life of a FIFO wife. He’s away at least 20 weeks a year for parliamentary sittings alone, not to mention ministerial travel. “She’s only ever known me in politics so it has been a part of our lifestyle. She gets a bit sick of it sometimes but it’s always been the way we live.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The couple have three children: William, 5, Theo, 3, and 11-month-old Hugo. Devotion to duty meant Michael was in Melbourne for a Liberal Party Federal Council meeting when Hugo arrived 10 weeks early last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The first two pregnancies had been textbook, no problems. The third one was much more difficult,” he says. “She had been in hospital for a while, everything went wrong with that pregnancy, it was just very complicated. He’s perfectly healthy now but the poor kid had a very traumatic start to life. And I wasn’t here, which was very unfortunate. I should have probably been at home but anyway, it’s one of those things. As my brother-in-law said, being here for two out of three isn’t bad.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He remembers the urgent, traumatic flight home to Perth after learning Hugo had arrived. “She’d gone back into surgery so I was desperately trying to find out what was going on and I remember being on the <span class="companylink">Qantas</span> flight and I was still trying to call through and they said ‘Sorry sir you’re going to have to turn off your phone’ and just then I got a text saying everything was OK. I went straight to the hospital when we landed. We are very lucky because he didn’t have a lot of complications beyond that. He’s a great little kid.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hugo’s time in the ICU at King Edward left Michael with a great sense of admiration for the staff and other parents at the hospital. “It’s just tremendously good. The other wonderful thing they do is they have all these photos on the wall of these robust people saying ‘Adrian: born 12 weeks premature’ and it reminds you that it’s a bit difficult now but over time it gets easier. We were very lucky, Hugo didn’t really take any backward steps when he was born whereas obviously there are people in that ICU where it’s not always good news.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The big beachside Keenan home on a recent Saturday morning was the kind of polite chaos you’d expect. The dining table is strewn with newspapers and a selection of mobile phones lie on a butcher’s block in the neat kitchen (any mess is out of sight in a trendy butler’s pantry).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Georgina is hunting down a jumper for baby Hugo while Michael tries to keep the furious crawler in check. He’s also wrangling chirpy Theo and William, getting their shoes on so they can accompany him to a street fair in the electorate. The two elder boys discuss what design they’ll choose at the mooted face- painting stand. A butterfly seems to be the consensus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Georgina is pleased to be getting a very rare night out with the women from mother’s group while her husband attends a Hilltop Hoods gig at Perth Arena — though he isn’t necessarily a hip-hop fan. “It’s just a good opportunity to catch up with friends.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I always try to get home for weekends,” Michael says. “And I try to maximise the time I’ve got because then I fly on Sunday nights generally, back to the east.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So-called date nights are few and far between. “We do try but it doesn’t happen very often,” he says. “We were supposed to be going out the other night but one of the kids got a cold. We make a bit of an effort but I wouldn’t say we’re wildly successful. Going out for dinner would be a nice thing to do.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s certainly not going to happen before July 2. An election campaign means Michael’s away from home even more than usual, pressing constituent flesh and accompanying lower-profile local MPs on shopping centre strolls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has been traversing the country, busily handing out grants from the Federal Government’s $50 million Safer Streets Program, a bit of electioneering that’s been mocked for stretching the limits of the caretaker conventions. But Michael will happily admit that giving out ill-gotten gains is one of his favourite things to do. “The only pot of discretionary money you generally have is proceeds of crime so I’ve been reinvesting proceeds of crime in beefing up our ability to take away criminal proceeds, and we reinvest every dollar in law enforcement.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says seizing proceeds of crime is a “very effective way of tackling organised crime. There’s all sorts of ways that we will disrupt organised crime beyond the traditional methods. The immigration system we use incredibly effectively in this way by punting people out of Australia who are known crooks. That’s made an enormous difference. You punt the head of a big outlaw motorcycle gang out of the country, and it makes an enormous difference.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It’s also part of a broader approach to tackling the ice scourge. “We’ve got a massive problem in Australia. It’s worse in Western Australia and then ... there are specific towns where it’s just diabolical. It’s the worst of all the drugs. All these stories you hear about inexplicable violence against your own family, against your own kids, someone kills their grandmother — London to a brick ice addiction is behind the vast majority of that. People just behave in a way that they would never behave when they’re in their right mind.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He talks about the joint initiative with the Chinese government, Taskforce Blaze, and the need to do more to deter young people from ever trying ice in the first place. “Every copper will tell you the same thing: supply is going to find its way in if we don’t control demand so that’s got to be the other side of the equation.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But without doubt the most important part of his portfolio is the one that wakes him up at night: counterterrorism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s not a regular occurrence but you always need to be available for these sorts of things so when the phone rings in the middle of the night it’s generally bad news. Well, it’s always bad news,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The thing you often get calls about are bad occurrences overseas — Paris, for instance — that have an immediate impact on Australia because obviously there’s the potential for copycats and can tend to ramp everything up. So as soon as something happens overseas, the shooting at the Canadian parliament, the Paris attacks, that’s relayed to me instantly.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The gravity of the job isn’t lost on the quietly ambitious minister. “I hope this doesn’t sound arrogant or rude but I think the job is consequential in the sense of ... if we get the decisions right, I do think that’s going to make a big difference to how the security situation is going to be in Australia and, again, I hope this doesn’t sound braggy but I think we have got the decisions right and I think it has made an enormous difference to the security of Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We really have had a very sure-footed response here. I mean, we’ve stopped eight attacks in Australia. Any of those eight attacks could have been horrendous and if some of them had happened I think they would have literally changed the fabric of the country. We do have a lot of strengths. Our social cohesion is very important and we do that better than most parts of the world, and also the fact that we’re controlling immigration.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says his incredibly diverse electorate, which takes in Mirrabooka and Balga as well as Trigg and parts of Scarborough, is a shining example of that social cohesion. “It’s the most diverse part of Western Australia and we’ve got representatives, really, from all the major groups you’d find anywhere in Australia.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Michael himself is from migrant stock: dad Peter came to Australia from England when he was nine, moving to Narrabri in country NSW where his late parents Elsie and Peter had a clothing store.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“They were good, working-class English folk from the north of England. It’s amazing, that act of them moving to Australia, was just transformational,” he says. “I went back to study in the UK, my sister went back to study in the UK. My grandma, she couldn’t believe that her grandkids would go and study in these prestigious universities ... So if we’d stayed in England we’d never had got to study in England, you know what I mean? That’s the power of Australia, that everyone has these opportunities when they come here.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Peter moved to WA to take a pilot’s job, and met Patricia at church. Michael has two sisters, Catherine a former journalist and recipient of a 2016 Australian of the Year Award for establishing not-for-profit creative writing centre Sydney Story Factory and Jenny, who runs health business Living Synergy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He remembers a “very happy, very lucky” childhood which saw all three kids work for the family business once they were old enough (the first mentions of Michael Keenan in The West ’s archives are all real estate listings). Michael’s first jobs, though, were delivering milk and then Hungry Jack’s, then behind the bar at the Queen’s. “I can absolutely pull a beer. I did that for lots of years in different places: London, Edinburgh, Perth.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After finishing Trinity — “I wasn’t a particularly good student but ... I always wanted to see the world and education was great for that” — he travelled widely. Time in Eastern Europe during the end of the final days of the Soviet Union in 1991 gave him first-hand experience of the impact good — or, rather, bad — government can have on a country’s people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It was a terrible system, what they did to people, the way they treated people. It’s a good example of why I think politics is important, government matters and it matters to the way people live and the opportunities they have.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He studied at Murdoch, <span class="companylink">Charles University</span> in Prague and ANU in Canberra. He also did a masters of philosophy (international relations) at Cambridge. He’d already joined the Liberal Party and on returning from the UK began working for them. It surprised his family. “I probably was a little more left wing when I was younger — as a lot of younger people are. But I saw the light,” he says, laughing.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now he wants to keep that light burning brightly. “I want to do as much as I can. I’d like to be a minister as long as I can.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He waves off talk of prime ministerial ambitions (there are even rumours he might one day transition to State politics and become Premier).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Like everyone I want to go as far as I can but I don’t have aspirations to be Prime Minister, I’m keen to continue to serve,” he says. “In politics, it’s not really up to you, it’s up to the electors, it’s up to the Prime Minister, it’s up to your colleagues, so you don’t get to pick and choose all the time. We’ll just have to see how it goes.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘It’s not a particularly romantic story.’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">‘She’s only ever known me in politics.’</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PICTURE IAIN GILLESPIE</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Retreat on boats just won’t wash</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOHN MASANAUSKAS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>195 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE main political parties have been urged not to backtrack on Australia’s tough border protection policies after the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Immigration Department official Adrienne Millbank said the Federal Government should also help broker a new global <b>refugee</b> agreement because the current one lacked credibility.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The ‘migrant’ crisis in Europe has provided a vivid and dramatic display of the problems and moral confusion at the core of the <b>asylum</b> system,” she said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It confers advantage on those with the resources to move to wealthier countries. It encourages people to risk their and their families’ lives (and) it diverts attention from more needy refugees and displaced people.” Ms Millbank, a research associate at The Australian Population Research Institute, has previously worked as an immigration policy officer and as a senior adviser at the Australian Parliamentary Library Research Service.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a blog on the institute website, Ms Millbank said there was general relief in Australia the boats had been stopped.“In view of the object lesson still playing out, any policy retreat that risks the return of <b>boat</b> arrivals to Australia’s shores is unthinkable,” she said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SHORTEN IN A HELLUVA STATE OVER DAN</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>937 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FOR reasons known only to himself, and possibly union chief Peter Marshall, Premier Daniel Andrews has decided to ignore the political wisdom about never going to war with anyone in a uniform and inserted himself in a giant row between the United Firefighters Union and the <span class="companylink">Country Fire Authority</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And one of those looking on with alarm is Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, who is trying to win an election while his Labor colleague, Andrews, tries to shoot the political equivalent of Bambi by backing his union mates over 60,000 CFA volunteers, many of them respected community leaders. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has seized on the issue, appearing at a CFA rally to laud the “heroes’’ and true “Australians’’ that largely make up the volunteer brigades and rail against Shorten’s links to the unions.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Country and regional Liberals and Nationals believe the issue is seriously damaging for Labor and that there’s a strong possibility of CFA volunteers directly campaigning against Labor at the election in only three weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That eventuality isn’t guaranteed — the CFA volunteers are not political activists and have taken a long time to get fully furious about the bid by the UFU to be handed control over some of their operational decisions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And, while some Labor people concede “brand damage’’ is a possibility, others insist Turnbull’s efforts to draw Shorten into the row have failed. But there’s little doubt the issue will make the volatile Liberal-held seat of Corangamite more difficult for Labor to win and could impact on the marginal Liberal seats of Dunkley and La Trobe and marginal Labor seats of McEwen and Bendigo (more on that seat later). Either way, Shorten is desperate to distance himself from the mess by repeatedly referring it to as a “state issue’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This won’t wash. Marshall, chief of the militant UFU, met Shorten to discuss the issue in parliament a few weeks ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten has also discussed it with Andrews. Reportedly, he asked them both to pull their heads in and settle the dispute ASAP — but we don’t know for sure, because he refuses to tell us.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In 2012, the Australian Nurses Federation was blueing with Liberal premier Ted Baillieu over a pay dispute and things were getting messy. The Sunday <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun revealed the dispute was settled after a somewhat unusual collection of people fixed it behind the scenes. They included former Baillieu chief-of-staff (now Liberal federal director) Tony Nutt, then Police Association secretary Greg Davies ... and then federal workplace relations minister Bill Shorten. And in 2014, Shorten, as Opposition Leader, fronted a rally with paramedics in Victoria, who were fighting Liberal Premier Denis Napthine for a pay rise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So, dipping in and out of state enterprise bargaining agreement brawls is something federal Labor leaders apparently reserve the right to do — and Shorten really doesn’t want to be involved in this one.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But his decision to meet Marshall in Parliament House in Canberra to discuss it means he bought in and now cannot step out.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALL this is happening in the context of a double-dissolution federal election, with the polls locked at 50-50 and Shorten within striking distance of bringing down a first-term government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In many ways, Andrews has been a gift for Turnbull, and Shorten and his frontbench have shown considerable restraint as they routinely became collateral damage. As a Right-wing union leader and a centrist local MP, Shorten twice wrote letters of support for the proposed East West Link toll road, encouraged by the job opportunities it would provide and the productivity gains it would bring. But after Andrews killed it off, at a cost to the taxpayer of $1.1 billion, Shorten went out and, through gritted teeth, publicly said he no longer supported the road “under the current circumstances’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The federal Liberals are now gleefully using that backflip in an attack ad. Early this year, as federal Labor was holding together its deal that supports mandatory offshore detention for <b>asylum</b> seekers who arrive by <b>boat</b>, Andrews posted a photo of himself with <b>refugee</b> children on social media, with the hashtag #letthemstay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal Labor’s usually amiable immigration spokesman, Victorian-based Richard Marles, has since commented icily that the issue was “not one that lends itself to a hashtag slogan’’. Rumour has it his response behind the scenes was much less polite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In some ways, Labor is lucky the CFA dispute hasn’t got completely out of hand. Despite Turnbull’s efforts to use it to highlight Shorten’s union links, it hasn’t become a national issue and is largely confined to Victoria, where only a handful of seats are in play. But Labor MP for Bendigo, Lisa Chesters, suffered an outbreak of honesty and showed what a problem this is for Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This week on her <span class="companylink">Facebook</span> page she wrote: “I proudly and loudly stand with our Bendigo and Central Vic CFA.” When challenged on her decision to back the CFA on this so-called “state issue’’, Chesters quietly deleted the post and replaced it with one “proudly and loudly supporting all of our emergency service workers regardless of whether they are volunteers or employees’’. The weasel words couldn’t hide the fact that her political instinct had been to back in the volunteers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten will be hoping like hell that voters aren’t choosing sides, like Chesters did, when they line up at the ballot box on July 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ELLEN WHINNETT IS NATIONAL POLITICS EDITOR ellen.whinnett@news.com.au@ellenwhinnett</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>CO</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>cfirah : Country Fire Authority</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>NS</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>gfire : Fire/Rescue Services | gpol : Domestic Politics | gcat : Political/General News | gpir : Politics/International Relations</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>RE</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>austr : Australia | victor : Victoria (Australia) | apacz : Asia Pacific | ausnz : Australia/Oceania</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>PUB</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>News Ltd.</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><br/><b>AN</b>&nbsp;</td><td><br/>Document HERSUN0020160609ec6a0001p</td></tr></table><br/></div></div><br/><span></span><div id="article-DAITEL0020160606ec670002z" class="article" ><div class="article enArticle"><table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="0"><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SE</b>&nbsp;</td><td>OpEd</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>SLURRED INTO SILENCE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MARK LATHAM </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1001 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the tactics of political correctness is to brand anyone expressing mainstream views as a bigot.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This allows the accuser to claim the high moral ground while smearing his opponent with the sins of racial, gender and sexual discrimination.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Australian politics it is no longer possible to speak truthfully about Left-generated issues such as domestic ­violence, <b>asylum</b> seekers and genderless school programs without experiencing a politically correct bigotry slur (with the apt abbreviation PCBS).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet the interesting thing about PCBS is its in-built boomerang. Invariably, the people yelling ‘‘bigot’’ are themselves guilty of discrimination.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m not usually one to defend the Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, but he was the victim of an unwarranted smear when Bill Shorten labelled him a ‘‘homophobe” for criticising the content of the Safe Schools program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are so many things wrong with Safe Schools that questioning its appropriateness is a legitimate matter of public interest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And that’s all Bernardi did.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In private, Shorten might even agree with him, given that none of the Opposition Leader’s three children are enrolled at Safe Schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is also true of the program’s chief sponsor, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Between them, Shorten and Andrews have six children and they all attend non-Safe Schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two Labor leaders ­happen to be inflicting classroom lessons involving breast-binding and penis-tucking on everyone’s kids ­except their own.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In defending Safe Schools, Andrews has said: “I get my advice on policy from the experts, not from bigots.” This is a classic PCBS. And it has boomeranged badly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Much of the literature underpinning the Safe Schools and Building Respectful ­Relationships programs is based on the notion of same-sex superiority.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In her book Feminist Practice And Poststructuralist Theory, for instance, Christine Weedon depicts heterosexual women as pathetically weak.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Only lesbians, who have avoided male indoctrination, can act collectively to overturn patriarchy and create a gender-fluid society.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Like most men, I love lesbians but not to the point of running down straight women.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There’s a nasty heterophobia in the new ‘‘ungendered” school curriculum, creating more prejudice than it actually solves.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten and Andrews need to understand that the experts are the bigots. Instead of blindly accepting whatever advice neo-Marxist academics place on their desks, our political leaders need to read the material and understand how ideological propaganda is being introduced into the nation’s classrooms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia’s <b>asylum</b> seeker debate is also dominated by the PCBS. If an objective observer visited Australia during this election campaign and studied the <b>asylum</b> seeker debate, he would conclude two things.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One: the Howard and Abbott governments stopped the boats and saved large numbers of people from drowning.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two: the Rudd and Gillard governments lured many hundreds of <b>boat</b> people, mostly Muslims, to their death on the waters between Australia and Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By this practical, evidence-based test, Labor implemented a pro-drownings policy for Muslims.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Yet remarkably, senior Labor MPs continue to label as racist anyone who disagrees with them on <b>refugee</b> policy — the ultimate PCBS.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The party’s smearer-in-chief has been Anthony Albanese, who has launched more allegations of bigotry over border protection than most of us have had hot lunches.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most, but not all, have been ­directed at the Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For many years, Albanese’s favourite party trick in the House of Representatives was to interject “Sieg Heil!” on Liberal MPs speaking about refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The voters have also copped a serve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">During an immigration debate in 2001, Albanese complained that parts of the Australian electorate had objected to the arrival of Vietnamese <b>asylum</b> seekers “on narrow, bigoted grounds”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He railed against mandatory detention and the ongoing “vilification of refugees”, asking: “What sort of nation are we that in the year 2001 tolerates that in order to appeal to some rednecks in our society?” Since the Tampa incident 15 years ago, Albanese has strongly supported Labor For Refugees, an elitist inner-city cell attacking suburban voters as “ignorant, racist and emotive”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In August 2003, he told a conference at the <span class="companylink">University of Technology Sydney</span> that: “Unless we acknowledge that there are some people who don’t actually like <b>asylum</b> seekers, not just John Howard, then we won’t be able to move forward.” Five months later, at Labor’s National Conference, he said there would have been no <b>refugee</b> debate, “if they were Irish Catholics coming here on boats. No, it’s because they are Muslims.” Prior to the 2015 national conference, Albanese urged the party “not to appeal to the darker side” of the electorate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The question of race has consistently underpinned his attitude to border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his mind, if Australia was not such a racist nation, the boats could flow in large numbers and we could welcome many more <b>asylum</b> seekers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If this is his record in public, imagine what Albo’s been saying in private. In late 2001, during a barney in Canberra, he told me that the main barrier to ALP compassion for refugees was racism in Western Sydney.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now, in the middle of an election campaign, he has denied making this statement, telling Radio 2GB he’s a cleanskin when it comes to “the idea that working-class people are racist”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The evidence suggests otherwise.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The ALP and, more importantly, the doomed <b>asylum</b> seekers leaving Indonesia, would have been better off if Albo had simply said nothing about <b>refugee</b> policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Why does he still bother?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He doesn’t represent a welcoming community, given that his seat of Grayndler settles only 20 refugees per annum — compared to thousands in places such as Fairfield and Liverpool in Western Sydney. And his party’s weaker border protection during the Rudd-Gillard years resulted in more than 1200 <b>asylum</b> seekers dying.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You do the maths.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For every <b>refugee</b> coming to live in Albanese’s electorate during the six years of Labor government, 10 drowned at sea — a barbaric strike-rate.Politically correct BS indeed.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Refugees ready to work for new life</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHARLES MIRANDA LEBANON </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>290 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>6 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THEY’RE broke, hungry and living on charity, but they want Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to know they’re also literate, hard working and ready to call Australia home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton sparked headlines on the election trail when he said many Syrian refugees were illiterate in their own language and any increase in humanitarian intake could “take Australian jobs” or swell the ranks of the unemployed.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But News Corp Australia yesterday travelled to numerous <b>refugee</b> camps dotted along the Lebanese-Syrian border and found people who not only were literate, but spoke English. In some cases, just enough to beg to be taken to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In one <b>refugee</b> tent city on the border, known simply as “Camp 035”, 100 families had recently been accepted as part of resettlement programs to Australia and Canada. Most were from middle-class, university or trade certificate backgrounds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are many here like this. One was a friend of mine, Ghassan, who was an accountant and he left for Australia last week,” camp elder Hussein Abu Ibrahim said yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ibrahim has three sons, one of whom travelled by <b>boat</b> to Germany recently and was already resettling there with German language courses and a trade, while another was still in Damascus at university.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There are 3000 families in this camp, most from Idlib and we all want to work, we all realise we cannot go back to Syria, there is no future there especially for the youth. But we can go somewhere else like Australia and start again,” he said.A man named Khalid wanted all Australian politicians to know they were smart and could offer the country something if they were given a chance.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten trying to go greener than Greens</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PIERS AKERMAN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>964 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">IT’S passing fashionable for members of the chuckle-headed chattering class to say there is now no difference between the Coalition and Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As usual, they’re wrong.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The parties that have actually merged identities are Labor and the Greens. Under Opposition leader Bill Shorten, Labor has been dragged to the Left. Within Labor there are significant rumps opposed to the party’s public positions on ­border protection and the ­environment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No one in the ALP seriously believes that Shorten will be able to prevent the Left reversing the party’s support for the Coalition’s successful <b>boat</b> turnback policy and offshore detention program.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both Labor and the Greens are fighting for the support of the politically correct minority, which is obsessed with gender politics, as their support for La Trobe University’s radical Marxist school indoctrination program with its advice on breast-binding and penis tucking demonstrates.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the parties are also virtually agreed on any number of other policies. It is reaching the point where the Greens advance one of their economy-destroying policies and Labor then rushes to match their madness, as ­implausible as the goals clearly are.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is sheer fantasy to suggest that Australia could achieve a 50 per cent renewable energy target in 14 years — solar only operates in daylight hours, the wind doesn’t blow on command, tidal power is a dream and hydro is dependent on rainfall and huge dams, as Tasmanians have discovered to their enormous cost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">However, the Left-leaning Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) within the ALP has pushed the party to adopt the unachievable 50 per cent target over the objections of the mining division of the CFMEU, even as the Greens have claimed they would ­demand a target of 90 per cent renewable energy within the same timeframe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As fossil fuel remains the only source of backup power required to ensure continuity of electricity supply, the target would be largely ineffective in reducing Australia’s emissions but it would inevitably drive up the cost of energy to households and businesses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LEAN’s logo is green, its members wear green T-shirts and its agenda is for the ALP to abandon its current policy ­positions and adopt Greens policies on a range of issues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of LEAN’s co-founders is Senator Jenny McAllister, a former national president of the ALP. Her co-convener is Felicity Wade, a former member of the Greens who joined Labor in 2013 in order to seek preselection in the seat of Newtown in the hope she could “force change from the inside” of the ALP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At the time of joining the ALP, she was employed as NSW campaigns manager for the Wilderness Society, Bob Brown’s pet lobby group.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both the pressure group and the Greens oppose any new coal power stations and want to close down the existing ones, and they both oppose nuclear power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A vote for Greens/Labor is going to hurt traditional working-class Labor supporters most severely and hit the hip pocket nerve of all Australians but that doesn’t concern either parties’ extreme Leftists as they are largely well-heeled (or at least well-sandalled) high- income earners in the inner urban suburbs and not reliant on jobs dependent on high power consumption.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The bottom line is that both Labor and the Greens have a total disregard for the millions of people in poverty across the Third World and particularly in India, one of the largest consumers of Australian coal, who would benefit from ­access to cheap light and power.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Greens/Labor voters show as little compassion for this underclass as they do for the thousands who would undoubtedly drown if the current border protection policies were wound back and illegal people smuggling resumed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Further proving that they don’t care about the cost of their policies to Australian taxpayers, the Greens want to lift the annual <b>refugee</b> intake to 50,000 at a cost of $7 billion, while Labor is rushing to meet them with a promise to double the intake to 27,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as the LEAN ginger group within the ALP boasts of its influence, so do the members of Labor for Refugees brag that they can swing the party’s policy and indeed they boast that 90 per cent of their proposed amendments to soften Labor’s border protection policies were adopted at last year’s national ALP conference.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A fortnight ago, on May 14, Labor for Refugees endorsed the Greens’ <b>asylum</b> seeker policy along with a future deal with the Greens to further ­soften Labor’s policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There is a certain irony in the blending of Labor and Greens policies and that’s ­because Labor has adopted the poisonous Greens program in a desperate attempt to fight the Greens challenge for those city seats it holds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">No less a Labor stalwart than Anthony Albanese has been forced to abandon his support for the overdue and much-needed WestConnex project, which he boasted funding just three years ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Facing a challenge from the Greens in his NIMBY-burdened seat of Grayndler, the hail-fellow-well- met Albo now says the link from the Western Sydney suburbs to the city won’t get any more funding though the principal users would have been the tradies from the West for whom it would have slashed the daily commute.Which surely indicated how out of touch with its traditional supporters Labor has now ­become as it moved further to the Left to appeal to the Greens. Those who think they have reason to punish the ­Coalition should seriously contemplate the obvious dangers of giving power to a party hell bent on trying to out-Green the Greens.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Politicians must come clean on this mean machine</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Eva Orner is an Academy and Emmy award-winning Australian filmmaker. Her film Chasing <b>Asylum</b> is in cinemas now. Steven Glass is a partner at law firm Gilbert + Tobin and a board member of The <b>Asylum</b> Seekers Centre in Sydney. </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Claims on <b>asylum</b> intake are a travesty, write Eva Orner and Steven Glass.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Politicians should stop proclaiming the falsehood that Australia is generous to refugees. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tells us Australia is the second most generous participant in the United Nations resettlement program. But that program is but a tiny part of the <b>refugee</b> landscape.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of the 2 million or so refugees who seek protection from persecution each year, fewer than 70,000 (3.5 per cent) find safety through that program. Australia participates by taking a miserly 5000 people each year. What about the other 96.5 per cent? They flee by whatever means, and to whichever country, they can.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">There are now 1.8 million refugees in Turkey, 1.5 million in Pakistan, 1.2 million in Lebanon (a country with a population of 4.5 million), and so on down the list - Iran, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Uganda. Australia doesn't feature anywhere near the top 30 most generous countries - not even when you repeat the calculation on a per capita or per dollar basis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australia currently hosts just 35,000 people seeking protection and grants visas to about 8000 of them a year. Most have been waiting four years or more to learn their fate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But what about the boats crisis? There's no such thing and there never has been. It has been manufactured by our politicians. We do not have hordes of <b>boat</b> arrivals threatening our borders. We never have. Australia accepts 190,000 new immigrants each year. Last year just 14,000 (7.5 per cent) of them were refugees. In the biggest year of so-called "unauthorised" <b>boat</b> arrivals, 2012-13, just 25,000 people arrived by <b>boat</b> - only about 13 per cent of our overall migration intake. The overwhelming majority of people who need protection don't want to come here, they want to (and do) go to Europe and the US.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It has been suggested we might increase our <b>refugee</b> intake to 50,000 a year. That would still be only a quarter of our new immigrants. And we'd be doing our country a big favour - Australian government research shows that young refugees are more likely than other immigrants to attend an educational institution, and refugees over their lifetime are more likely than other immigrants to become entrepreneurs who create jobs. In fact, they're more likely to do these things than all other Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull also tells us, "We are welcoming another 12,000 [refugees] from the Syrian conflict zone, particularly persecuted minorities." This was announced in September 2015, by his predecessor, Tony Abbott. Eight months have passed and only a small number of Syrian refugees have been resettled. In less time the new <span class="companylink">Canadian government</span> has welcomed 30,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, and, indeed, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, if you are so worried about stopping desperate people drowning on boats and destroying the people-smugglers' business model, why do you not just fly <b>asylum</b> seekers here and/or set up a processing centre in Indonesia?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As we approach an election it is time for us as a country to stand up and say this is not who we are. We must demand better of our politicians and ourselves. Offshore detention must end and all refugees and <b>asylum</b> seekers languishing on Nauru and Manus must be brought to Australia.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>A do-gooder’s guide</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>JOSH EARL </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>584 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart Mercury</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>MRCURY</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Hobart</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is always weird when you discover people’s prejudices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Call me crazy but I am of the belief that we are all equal, and if we’re not for reasons of health, or finances, or geography, that we should help those less fortunate and make sure that they have the same opportunities.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Now this line of thinking has in the past upset people, with them calling me “a do-gooder”, as if the concept of doing good is an insult. Election debates are happening all around the country. Some debates are broadcast on TV between politicians and “experts”, but far more are in the workplaces, universities, cafes, supermarkets and anywhere else where people stop and converse.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Each election since I have been of legal voting age one of the major topics has been <b>asylum</b> seekers, or, as people like to say “<b>Boat</b> People”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Can I just say that calling them “<b>Boat</b> People” makes them sound like Transformers, half <b>boat</b>, half people, which might go some way to explaining why some sections of the community are scared of them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trust me, they are not robots in disguise, they are just people seeking a better, fairer life for themselves and those they love.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And speaking of love, the other huge topic for debate is marriage equality. Hopefully it’s clear to anyone who has read my columns that I think that any two adults in love should be able to get married no matter which public bathroom they use. By the way can “cool” café’s just go back to having male, female or unisex on the door? I went to one the other week that was labelled XX and XY. I don’t want to have to think about chromosomes when I’m busting for the toilet, I failed Year 9 science.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I hear people against marriage equality arguing many crazy things, including that it will ruin the sanctity of marriage. I’m sorry, but have you been to a wedding lately? That ship sailed long ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Everyone is doing some stupid choreographed dance piece as they walk down the aisle, while people film it on their phones hoping it will go viral. A friend of mine and his wife got married dressed as Star Wars characters, his best man was Chewbacca, the vows were “I love you” and him saying “I know”. The “sanctity” of marriage these people talk about has disappeared to a galaxy far, far away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The other one that people pull out is “but how can we explain it to the children?” This one is easy, as any parent will tell you “use your words”. My kids have two gay uncles and two gay aunties and guess what, they are fine with it because they’re kids. If they can read a story about an owl marrying a pussycat I’m sure they’ll cope with two people of the same gender doing the same.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Call me a do-gooder all you want but I truly believe that we need to be kinder and treat people with respect and empathy. I mean we’re all just creatures floating on this big blue rock trying to do our best.Oh, except for those people who need to turn right when driving in double lanes who speed up in the left hand lane and only put their indicator on at the last minute hoping someone will let them merge. Those people are the worst.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>By Anuradha Nagarajin Chennai, India   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>266 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>5 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Canberra Times</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CANBTZ</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>A015</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>(c) 2016 The Canberra Times   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sri Lankan refugees stopped from sailing for Australia By Anuradha Nagaraj in Chennai, India</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indian authorities have intercepted a truck in Tiruvallur near Chennai where they found 33 Sri Lankan refugees missing from four government-run camps. The refugees, including six women and six children, were planning to take a <b>boat</b> to Australia, police said. It prompted <b>refugee</b> activists to call on the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to ease restrictions on Sri Lankan refugees living in guarded camps. Campaigners said the case showed how desperate they were to flee India where they have been confined to closed camps for years and have no right to work. "They are desperate people looking for a dignified life," said P. Pugalenthi, a lawyer who represents refugees in Chennai.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They are practically imprisoned in camps with no freedom of movement." More than 100,000 Sri Lankans are estimated to have sought refuge in southern India, particularly Tamil Nadu, during the conflict between separatist rebels and the Sri Lankan army which lasted 25 years and ended in 2009. The Tamil Nadu government runs 109 special camps, housing around 60,000 refugees. They receive an allowance, food and education. Some have been in the camps for two decades and many were born there. Most refugees have refused to return to Sri Lanka saying its government has not come up with a clear plan for their reintegration. They say if the Indian authorities won't grant them citizenship they should at least be allowed free movement. Reuters</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>BATTLE FOR BATMAN</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ROB HARRIS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2141 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALEX Bhathal may well soon be political proof of the old showbiz saying that it takes 15 years of hard work to be an overnight success.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was in Bhathal’s South Preston lounge room — doubling as her campaign headquarters — in 2001 when she first openly shared the thought she might one day win Batman for the Greens, once Labor’s safest seat.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Melbourne’s inner north has, along with the political climate, changed plenty since those times.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But key themes remain: Bell St’s still banked up during peak hour, a first home remains out of reach for many and the nation is bitterly divided on refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the same period David Feeney, the sitting Labor MP, has gone from kingmaker to calamity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a respected political strategist, Feeney is credited for many of the Bracks government successes and those of Mike Rann’s government in South Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As a senator he was integral in Labor’s leadership switch from Kevin Rudd to Julia Gillard but his shift to the Lower House three years ago has brought about greater accountability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The past month has included “three days of humiliation” when it was revealed he had not declared his $2.3 million negatively geared property in the electorate, which is a rental property, while he lives in an East Melbourne apartment.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Feeney’s self-described “own goal” has bolstered his opponent’s stocks to the point he’s now the underdog in the battle to keep his job. But having fought against the conservatives all his political life, the factional Labor figure is now being outflanked by the progressive side of politics.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Batman, named after one of Melbourne’s founding fathers, takes in about 66 square kilometres of Melbourne’s most diverse communities. Its residents come from more than 150 different countries. From Thomastown in the north to Clifton Hill in the south, the electorate’s changing demographic is challenging governments of all levels to meet its growing needs. From the increasingly gentrified suburbs of Northcote and Preston to the predominantly working-class community of Reservoir, the priorities of the voting population have evolved at a rapid rate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Since 1910 the seat has been out of Labor’s hands just twice and has been held without interruption since 1969.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Brian Howe, deputy prime minister to both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, held the seat from 1977 to 1996.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">CONTINUED NEXT PAGE FROM PREVIOUS PAGE He was succeeded by former ACTU president Martin Ferguson, who served in the Cabinets of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its head-to-head margin with the Liberals stretches well beyond 20 per cent, but it’s the Greens who have made up ground.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the time since Bhathal first stood as a Greens candidate, the social worker’s primary vote has risen from 11.6 per cent in 2001 to 26.4 per cent in 2013 over four elections. The Darebin Greens now boast 400 members — the most of any Greens branch in the country. In 2001 a trivia night was Bhathal’s biggest fundraiser, making about $2000. One art fundraiser alone this year netted more than $30,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And most political pundits now agree, with a little help from Liberal preferences, that Batman is the Labor stronghold most likely to fall to the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">FEENEY tells the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun he is well aware he faces the fight of his political life.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It’s going to be a very tough race, there’s no doubting that,” he says. “The fact they’ve formed an alliance with the Liberals to defeat Labor is going to make seats like mine very tough. But I know I’m going to give it everything I’ve got and talk about the issues that matter.” He says the key to holding the seat will be convincing voters it’s his party that will deliver on the issues that matter most to them — health, education and infrastructure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has invested heavily in a local advertising blitz, drawing criticism from his opponents for going negative and anger from within his party for going “off message”. Billboards line major intersection and roads throughout Northcote and Preston, pointing to a likely Liberal preference deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says the loose alliance, driven by Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger, means both parties are working hard to defeat Labor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The bottom line is the Greens are a party of protest who are unaccountable for their promises,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Green tinge on Melbourne’s inner suburbs reached a pivotal point in 2010 when Adam Bandt broke through to win the neighbouring seat of Melbourne. The party has made huge inroads in Wills, where it remains a chance of winning this time around and in Batman. Two Greens now sit in state parliament representing constituents both north and south of the Yarra.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The type of campaign that has won and defended Melbourne has been recreated in Batman as the party eyes off a potential power-sharing deal. Bandt has played a crucial role in the Greens’ strategic plan to win himself some Lower House colleagues.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Batman needs a strong local representative who lives in the electorate, not a factional warlord who takes the community for granted,” he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BUT Feeney’s predecessor, Martin Ferguson, says he would be “greatly disappointed” if the seat fell to the Greens.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Here’s a guy who’s a potential Cabinet minister against someone who’ll most likely be irrelevant when in Canberra,” Ferguson says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And the former industry minister, who was disowned by some within Labor for his support of electricity privatisation in NSW last year, warns the Greens are now a threat to both major parties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says many voters in inner-city electorates have “not seen hard times” after 25 years of economic growth.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ferguson believes <span class="companylink">Kroger</span> ’s deal will come back to “bite him on the bum”, warning that the blue-ribbon Liberal seat of Higgins could be next to fall.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He says too many young people vote “with their heart on their sleeves” rather than in the interests of others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“With the climate change solutions the Greens are offering, a transition at the speed they want would drive electricity prices through the roof and hit those already doing it tough hard,” Ferguson says. “I know those working-class households in the north of the electorate and I’ve seen how much of a struggle it still is for many of them.” Bhathal says despite the howling protests and attacks from Labor, it is clear voters crave a “better kind of progressive representation”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We are obviously well and truly on people’s radar now,” Bhathal says. “We passed that milestone in 2010 when we went past the Liberals, and I think we’ve done that by offering the sort of policies and politics that this community wants.” The Greens outpolled Labor in the south of the electorate with 41.5 per cent of the primary vote but dropped to only 12.3 per cent in the north of the seat. The Liberal Party’s vote ranged from 17.5 per cent in the south to 26.4 per cent in the north.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bhathal says there is “no preference deal” with the Liberals or any other party. “The voters have the power to decide where their preferences go and we intend to win Batman in our own right regardless of what parties do on preferences,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Having lived most of her adult life in the electorate, where she an her GP husband Peter raise two children, she says she’s now having conversations in the “northern communities” — traditional Labor territory — where housing affordability and negative gearing have become major concerns for residents.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She credits party leader, Victorian senator Richard Di Natale, as a reason more and more Batman residents see the Greens as a viable alternative.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’ve never had phone calls from Italian grandmothers before; now they are ringing me,” Bhathal says. “Richard grew up in this area, he went to school with my husband.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Much of the European migrant population which settled in this area hasn’t moved and I think they connect with his story.” BHATHAL refers to herself as a “Tampa Green”, motivated by the Howard government’s refusal to allow a Norwegian vessel carrying 438 rescued refugees to enter Australian waters in August 2001.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But her journey to Greens politics followed a familiar route. Despite being drawn to Labor in her youth, she rallied against uranium mining in the 1980s and joined the anti-nuclear movement.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, as a long-time northern suburbs dweller, she says she’s driven by issues at a local level.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In my line of work I’ve seen the gap in employment, the growing disadvantage for our youth in the area,” she says. “As a prosperous society those issues in a place like Batman shouldn’t exist to the extent they do.” A daughter of a Sikh immigrant from Northern India, Bhathal says major parties have shown “disgraceful disregard” for the reality of the contribution of migrants, including refugees, in the area.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Whether I’m speaking to Italian senior citizens in northwest Reservoir or whether I’m speaking to Greek families in cafes or hipsters, multiculturalism goes to the very core of people in this electorate,” she says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">rob.harris@news.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE CHALLENGER ALEX BHATHAL Party: Greens Age: 51 Resides: South Preston Previous campaigns: Contested Batman in 2001, 2004, 2010 and 2013 federal elections. Stood for Senate in 2007.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Work history: social worker with Brotherhood of St Laurence, youth councillor at Moreland Community Health Service, youth worker at Anglicare Northern, Preston Residential Youth Services.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Primary votes 2013: 23,522 (26.40%) Key policy differences: ■ Complete ban on negative gearing ■ Oppose offshore processing and <b>boat</b> turnbacks, increase immigration intake by 50,000 a year ■ Against mandatory data retention and elements of national security laws supported by Coalition and Labor</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE INCUMBENT DAVID FEENEY Party: Labor Age: 46 Resides: East Melbourne Previous campaigns: Elected to Senate in 2007, quit to contest Batman in 2013. Work history: Transport Workers Union, ALP state secretary, premier Steve Bracks ’s director of strategy, SA ALP campaign director 2005-06. ALP assistant national secretary 2005-08.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Primary votes 2013: 36,798 (41.29%) Key policies: ■ Ban negative gearing on existing properties ■ Offshore processing of refugees and turnbacks of <b>asylum</b> seeker vessels, lift <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 a year ■ Support for new national security laws, including mandatory data retention</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE ODDS GREENS $1.50 LABOR $2.50 Source: sportsbet.com.au</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">WHAT VOTERS ARE SAYING CHEZLA SPINA, 19 “I’m going to vote for the Greens, I think. Their views on <b>asylum</b> seekers are so much better than Liberals and Labor. They also seem a lot fairer with their budgeting. I wasn’t old enough to vote last time.” ADONIS PSINAS, 80 “I’ve always voted Labor, for the simple reason that I was a worker myself and Labor have always stuck with the workers.” ERIN CONWAY,23 “I’m going to vote for the Greens because I like the environment. I think Labor might be better at tackling the issue than the Liberals, but I trust the Greens the most. I voted Greens last time, too.” JONNY AINSCOUGH, 37 “I’m going to vote for Alex Bhathal. I always vote Greens, they have the strongest policies compared with the two major parties. Sustainability, the environment and public health are the Greens’ strong points.” ELLEN McGREGOR, 29 “I’m definitely going to vote for the Greens this election. Climate change and mental health spending are very important issues that the Greens seem to be ahead of the two major parties in.” FRANK BISAK, 78 “I’ll vote for Labor because I’ve always stuck with them. I believe that they’re more socially responsible than the Liberals. I have always voted Labor.” TYLER MCPHEDRAN, 23 “I think I’m going to vote for Labor. It’s only between Labor and Liberal, and I’ll never vote Liberal. Voting Greens is a throwaway vote. Not enough people vote for Greens to make a difference.” NICK ANGELOPOULOS, 21 “Greens. That’s where my views are best aligned. Equality is very important to me; whoever is running the country needs to treat everyone fairly. I used to support Labor, but now I support Greens.” VANESSA SPINA, 50 “I’m still undecided. I’m a nurse so I find healthcare to be a very important issue. Education is also important. Historically, I’ve been a Labor voter but I’ll decide after watching the debates.” SIMON MCSHANE, 56“(The Liberal Party) are our best chance of driving the economy forward. I voted for Labor last time but I’ve changed my mind because the Liberal Party is better placed in terms of economics.”</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>'I feel like I owe that little child'</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>BY ANDREW STEPHENS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1285 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>14</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ART</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ben Quilty found a sense of connection among the world's most desperate refugees. BY ANDREW STEPHENS</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When he was in Greece this year, Ben Quilty met a young Syrian woman who had made the perilous crossing by sea from Turkey. On the way, her four-year-old son had drowned.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Quilty made a drawing of this woman who, the day before, had buried her beautiful boy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was on that beach in Lesbos, too, that Quilty and his travelling companion, author Richard Flanagan, saw a long line of sea-safety vests the Syrians had thrown off as they crawled up onto the beach trying to get dry. The line of vests was like a physical remnant of grief, courage and desperation, the detritus of a country and a people savagely pummelled and dislocated.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They are like a high-tide mark of bright orange," Quilty says. There were adult sizes and others for children, some of which would have fitted his own daughter. This made the situation even more full of emotion for him.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We are so inured to the words "<b>asylum</b>-seeker" and "<b>refugee</b>" that we perhaps forget the meaning and feelings underneath. Those words describe people who are looking for safety: from violence, terror and, often, sheer doom. Mostly, though, they just want to save their children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Quilty and Flanagan confronted all this on their journey in January, during which they travelled to Greece, Serbia and Lebanon. The results are manifold: deeper personal understanding of the global issue of refugees, a book they have made together in words and pictures, plus two new Quilty art projects - one a solo show in Melbourne, the other a group exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The book, Notes on an exodus, explores how the two men followed the mass departures from that devastated country. Flanagan writes bluntly. "Refugees are not like you and me. They are you and me. That terrible river of the wretched and the damned flowing through Europe is my family."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first Quilty show, opening at Tolarno next week, is called The Stain and Quilty says the <b>asylum</b>-seeker predicament was, before the journey, an abstract concept for him, just as it is for most Australians, who hear so much about it but rarely have the chance to actually meet the people fleeing such dire situations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Before I went there I had no concept, I really had failed to humanise the events," Quilty says. "Without humans, it doesn't exist. The children particularly - it is impossible not to be moved."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Serbia, at a bus station where recently arrived Syrians were heading north to Germany, he met one girl, Heba.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"To sit with a tiny little girl who was my daughter's age, in Serbia, it was minus 15 degrees, she had a puffer jacket on and tiny little woollen gloves: I challenge anyone not to be moved by her," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"She just stood by her parents. To give her my paper - my beautiful handmade paper that had come from France or wherever I get it from and beautiful watercolour pencils - and sit down with her and communicate with her was just a profound thing to do."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Heba, he says, is deeply drawn to the language of art. She "drew and drew and drew" until, hours later, her parents took her onto the bus. "We didn't understand each other, we didn't need to because the drawings just came out of her."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A few days later, he went to Lesbos to retrace Heba's journey. "Her steps, or those of her dad carrying her, and to find on the shores of Lesbos this sea of lifejackets and little lifejackets that would have fitted her. Pyjamas found that would have fitted my little girl. Those connections for me ... I feel like I owe that little child all my efforts to bring attention to what is going on in her world.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Art is a great vehicle for it. It's what I do."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Flanagan asked Quilty to accompany him on the trip after the writer was invited by <span class="companylink">World Vision</span> to document the situation in a different way to standard media representations.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Tolarno show includes paintings and drawings of the young bereaved mother and the girl at the bus station but there is also a bold new video work that Kylie Needham, a screenwriter with much experience in film and television and also Quilty's wife, has collaborated with him on. The piece deals with the story of Ali, a young Pakistani <b>refugee</b>, who speaks directly to the camera in his native language.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ali, says Quilty, came to Australia when he was 16, against his mother's wishes. In Indonesia he got passage on a <b>boat</b> to Australia and arrived on Christmas Island a few weeks before the federal government locked the borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He would have ended up on Nauru but was lucky enough to get in," Quilty says. "He came to me as a work experience person and I was intrigued by his story. People had said he was a very good young painter: and he is fabulous, a very good painter and now enrolled in uni.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I took him to a very beautiful waterhole near my studio and got him in his native Hazara language [without subtitles] to recount his experience from stepping on to a <b>boat</b> in Indonesia until he landed in Australia on Christmas Island. He sort of cracks up [with distress] a few times but the only way you can tell the emotion is that he stops. You start to realise what his story is about.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"For anyone who sits there long enough it's impossible to miss the emotion of his delivery."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Quilty has also made a painting using his bare hands, scraping the paint across the canvas to form words. "You can see my finger prints. It's a gestural work with filthy grey 'Border force' scratched into the middle of it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Quilty is usually wary of using text in his paintings, this was an occasion when he felt compelled to. The other side of that is the many drawings he did on the trip with children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Because they are children ... they can tell a story in a pretty universal way, without any language barriers. I got the kids to draw the boats they had crossed in from Turkey. Four little tiny people drew the exact same image of a <b>boat</b> and when I got to Lesbos and finally saw the <b>boat</b> a few days later, it was a profound thing to see how much those boats and the details were etched into these little children's minds.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I guess that it is as much about a <b>refugee</b> experience as it is about how we understand each other and communicate messages, about how compassion needs to be translated. People need to be given the opportunity to hear and speak with other people for us to fully appreciate the bad things that are happening to them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">These experiences have cemented something that Quilty has long been pondering: what motivates him to make art?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Looking back over his many projects, he can see he has a strong history of collaborating deeply with his portrait subjects. "I am beginning to get my head around what I am driven by and it is those human stories. Most art is about the human condition - but I am driven by that connection."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Stain is at Tolarno Galleries, June 9-July 16. tolarnogalleries.com</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Notes on an exodus (Penguin, $9.99) by Richard Flanagan, illustrated by Ben Quilty, is released on June 27.</p>
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</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Debbie Cuthbertson </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>546 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She wears pink patterned tights, an embroidered denim skirt, red jumper, blue shoes, purple gloves, a yellow Pooh Bear beanie with a pom pom - and a bright orange life vest.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The hyper-realistic, life-sized sculpture of a child, her face covered by hair, her body positioned as if crucified, hangs on the wall in an upstairs gallery at the new public library in Melbourne's Docklands.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">She is surrounded by the smiling faces of three politicians - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull , Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Opposition leader Bill Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Above her bowed head sits a sign for Wilson Security, the company contracted to provide security services at Australia's offshore immigration detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Called Vast Ocean, the piece by Melbourne artist Van T Rudd is part of the group exhibition Vessels to a Story at the Library at the Dock, supported by Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees (RISE) and the City of Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Rudd's work references both <b>asylum</b> seekers who try to come to Australia by <b>boat</b> but most clearly children who have drowned while their parents seek <b>asylum</b> in Europe, most notably Syrian boy Alan Kurdi, 3, who made headlines last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An activist as well as an artist, Rudd is the nephew of former prime minister Kevin Rudd .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While he doesn't wish to speak about his uncle or the former PM's politics, it's clear his own political leanings strongly inform his art. Asked how children visiting the library might respond to his sculpture in the gallery space, Rudd says he hadn't really thought of that, but had discussed the issue with his own children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Me and my partner, we've described the situation for many refugees and their kids suffering on the high seas and in detention centres," he said. "I guess it needs to be seen," he said of his sculpture. "Hopefully parents will be able to explain things to their own kids ... I tend to explain it through a number of phases, the main one being that there's certain levels of desperation people reach as families, so kids will be in those situations."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vast Ocean is the extension of a series of ephemeral street sculptures he has created around Melbourne, under the name V-T-R, railing against cuts to education and forming a commentary on inequality. The exhibition is one of a number of shows opening this month in which artists reference the plight of <b>asylum</b> seekers, from the visual arts to theatre and classical music.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Artist Ben Quilty 's show at Melbourne's Tolarno Galleries will feature his paintings as well as buoyancy vests he retrieved from the shores of the Mediterranean when he and writer Richard Flanagan travelled with World Vision to witness the wave of <b>asylum</b> seekers fleeing the Middle East.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Quilty says artists are putting a human face to the issue. "The reason people so easily give away their compassion is because they've never met these people ... I've been interested and engaged in those issues and didn't think art had a part in that. But now I realise that's what my art is about."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In Spectrum tomorrow—</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">'I feel like I owe that little child'</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'><b>Refugee</b>: Islam story will make war</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>TESSA AKERMAN </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>484 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AUSTLN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Australian</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <b>refugee</b> who was the last person detained on Manus Island in 2004 has told a tribunal a newspaper article quoting MPs talking about Islam could “create a civil war”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The article, entitled “Islam must change”, was published last November and quoted Coalition MPs Andrew Hastie, Michael Sukkar and Josh Frydenberg questioning the need for reform within modern Islam.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his application before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, former Palestinian Aladdin Sisalem, 37, alleges the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun article vilified Islam by claiming it was involved in “serious crimes without any proof and calling for my religion to change”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Sisalem represented himself.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the third court case he has been involved in since 2004, including an anti-discrimination case against his university, RMIT, where he was studying ­engineering.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the other case, he protested against the cancellation of his Disability Support Pension.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The cancellation of his pension was linked to his level of impairment and it was noted in <span class="companylink">the Administrative Appeals Tribunal</span> decision that he had travelled overseas 16 times in five years and had no difficulty in lifting 13kg of luggage into the overhead compartment on a flight.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Sisalem alleged yesterday that the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> and Weekly Times Ltd, which publishes the <span class="companylink">Herald</span> Sun, breached three subsections of the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 by publishing the article.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Haroon Hassan for HWT ­argued yesterday that VCAT did not have jurisdiction to hear part of the case relating to serious vilification offences.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tribunal member Julia Grainger accepted Mr Hassan’s submission and allowed the case to continue in relation to alle­gations of unlawful vilification.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Sisalem said he did not think the article was in the public interest. “This article will turn people against people, against each other, and create a civil war,” he said. “How could (the author) find this in the public interest? I ­believe harm has been done.” He expressed further frus­tration with the politicians’ ­apparent agreement on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Grainger said it was not the appropriate venue or forum for Mr Sisalem to express his dissatisfaction with the content of the ­article, except to the extent that it may have breached race hate law.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Hassan said a balance must be struck between freedom of expression and extreme acts, saying “the article was no more than a robust piece of political reporting”. “It’s an example of the free speech which the act seeks to preserve,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Grainger has reserved her decision.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Sisalem is a Palestinian <b>refugee</b> who was held in detention on Manus Island in 2003 and 2004 after attempting to arrive in Australia by <b>boat</b> from Papua New Guinea.He was the sole detainee on Manus Island for several months, costing taxpayers more than $1 million. In June 2004, he was granted a humanitarian visa and arrived in Melbourne.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Labor at war with ABC over Vote Compass</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>James Massola Chief political reporter </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>444 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Media - Policy distortion claims</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor is furious with the ABC over its Vote Compass website, arguing it misrepresents the ALP's position on election-deciding policies including penalty rates and <b>boat</b> turn-backs.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">New ABC boss Michelle Guthrie has been sent a blistering letter by Labor national secretary George Wright demanding the website stop using party logos, return data provided and publish a prominent statement noting the ALP "does not believe it is an accurate representation of our party's positions".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vote Compass tells people how their views on issues align with the policies of Australia's major political parties. It has been used more than half a million times during the 2016 campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor believes the site seriously misleads voters over key policy positions and unfairly directs voters to support the Greens or the Coalition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On penalty rates, for example, the website states that Labor only "somewhat agrees" with the proposition that "People who work on a Sunday should get paid more than people who work on a Saturday", whereas the Greens are said to "strongly agree" with the statement. This is despite Opposition Leader Bill Shorten repeatedly arguing in favour of the existing Sunday penalty rates arrangements and promising Labor would make a further submission to the <span class="companylink">Fair Work Commission</span> to defend Sunday penalty rates. And on the statement: "Boats carrying <b>asylum</b> seekers should be turned back", the website states that Labor "somewhat agrees" with this position, whereas the Coalition "strongly agrees" with it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While Labor MPs and candidates have flagged their opposition to <b>boat</b> turn-backs, Labor formally adopted this policy position at its 2015 conference and Mr Shorten has clearly said the party's position is to support turn-backs if elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On same-sex marriage, Vote Compass has backed down and changed its position. The website originally stated Labor "somewhat disagrees" with the proposition that "Marriage should only be between a man and a woman".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But, like the Greens, it now states that Labor "strongly disagrees" with this proposition.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the letter to Ms Guthrie, Mr Wright states that "despite repeated efforts to resolve these concerns, we believe Vote Compass continues to misrepresent Labor policy".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A spokesman for the ABC confirmed it had received the letter from Mr Wright and said the ABC would "respond in due course".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The ABC regards Vote Compass as a valuable platform for informing the public about election policies. It is set up independently of ABC News and uses an academic panel to receive input from the parties on their policies and to place them within a broader policy context."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>It's about life in Palestine, not Israel</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Samah Sabawi is a Melbourne-based commentator, poet, author and playwright. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>844 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>3 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>19</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The play about Palestinians reflects everyday reality and does not need another voice.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tales of a City by the Sea sold out its 2014 and 2016 seasons to standing ovations by many, including people from a Jewish background. Despite this overwhelming support, a small yet vocal group hit the panic button when the play was selected for the VCE drama curriculum.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It seems that I, the writer, missed the memo that I can't write an artistic piece about Palestinian life without inserting Israel's point of view into my art. This is wrong on so many levels.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Most alarming was the false accusation by the B'nai B'rith organisation that the play "peddles classic anti-Semitic themes" (ABC radio, May 27). For the record, the play does not mention Jews, Judaism, the Jewish people or have any Jewish characters. This false allegation insults me as the author of this play as well as others including the cast and crew, La Mama theatre, the VCAA, the Australian Jewish Democratic Society as well as any one else who supported, attended, applauded and worked on this production.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I believe B'nai B'rith must apologise unequivocally to all of us. Anti-Semitism must always be taken seriously. False claims of anti-Semitism used to drive political agendas only trivialise and undermine our fight and resolve to eradicate it and other forms of racism.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some criticised the play for not including Israeli voices. The reality is the only times Israeli voices are heard in Gaza is when an Israeli soldier phones a Palestinian family and orders them to leave their house before it is bombed, over a megaphone if a Palestinian <b>boat</b> gets too close to the forbidden line in the sea, or when a Palestinian walks too close to the fence that surrounds Gaza and Israeli soldiers shout at them from the surveillance towers to turn back.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The sad reality is that there are no human interactions between Palestinians in Gaza and Israelis outside of this paradigm. Palestinians know the Israelis are there all the time, surveying them with drones in the sky, cameras on the walls and towers and naval gunships at sea. Had Israeli voices been included, this would have been the realistic depiction as experienced by Gazans. But they were not included because all of this was irrelevant to the play.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What the critics don't seem to grasp is this play is not about the Palestine/Israel conflict. Ordinary Palestinian life in Gaza does not revolve around political discussion. It is consumed with the daily battle for survival.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The two Palestinians falling in love in this play argue over where to live, what choices to make and the cultural differences between those who have left and those who have remained. The husband and wife in this play argue over how to make the water, a precious and increasingly scarce resource in Gaza, last longer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Inserting a conversation about <span class="companylink">Hamas</span> rockets and the Israeli army's point of view would have seemed unnatural and out of place in the context of daily lives. The play touches only briefly on politics to the extent that it mixes with daily life, for example when characters complain about <span class="companylink">Hamas</span>' restrictions on civil liberties or when a fisherman recalls his encounter with Israeli naval ships.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I spent the last two years researching with my Jewish Canadian co-editor Stephen Orlov the subject of Jewish and Palestinian plays as we gathered material for our soon-to-be-published anthology Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish Palestinian Diasporas. The more we researched the more we noted the scarcity of Palestinian plays actually produced in Western theatres. Here in Australia, I can't think of a staged play that had one Palestinian character or was written by a Palestinian.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is perhaps for this reason, and for the fact that culturally diverse groups in general are under-represented on the mainstream stage, that Tales of a City by the Sea is received with such enthusiasm. Our audience is as diverse as our cast. Our story resonates with refugees, ethnic minorities, <b>asylum</b> seekers and immigrants, who after each performance feel the need to thank us for finally reflecting their lives on stage, telling stories of how humanity can survive in times of adversity and war and producing theatre that matters to them. The voiceless. The marginalised.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Tales of a City by the Sea is a quintessential human story of survival and hope, and its events could have taken place anywhere there is war, bombardment and siege. But because it is set in Gaza and told by Palestinians, the play triggered this hyperbole of fear-mongering and racist reactions from those who refuse to see Palestinians as human beings. The problem with this play is not that it may dehumanise Israelis - it does not. The problem is it humanises the Palestinians. Apparently, for some, this is too much to handle.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Hunter Breakfast-| June 3</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>1828 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Newcastle Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NEHR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited. www.fd.com.au[http://www.fd.com.au] </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Traffic: No major incidents reported on Hunter roads.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Trains: Buses replace trains between Scone and Maitland until 7.30am. Trains between Dungog, Maitland and Hamilton may run 15 minutes behind the timetable. Good service on the Newcastle line.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Weather: Showers in Newcastle, Maitland and Toronto (21 degrees) as well as Nelson Bay and Scone (20 degrees) on Friday. An east coast low[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3945124/heavy-rain-winds-for-the-hunter/?cs=303] is expected to arrive over the weekend, coinciding with king tides for heavy rain, potential flash flooding and damaging surf.A gale warning is in place for the Hunter coast on Saturday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Beachwatch: A few coastal showers about and lighter winds during the morning.Tide going low after mid day.Swell has swung south-east at 1 to 1.5m.Wind light and variable becoming north-east by the afternoon at 15 to 20 knots. A full tide for the early and Flatrock,South Bar and Dixon Park the best options. As tide runs out Nobbys Reef and Merewether to improve.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Morning Shot: This one comes from <span class="companylink">Instagram</span>-?s @lifeofgeofro at Toronto.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE mother of a 12-year-old girl allegedly murdered by her stepfather following sustained physical abuse has been arrested over the schoolgirl's death. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3944768/mother-charged-over-girls-death/?cs=303]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A BUYER has come forward for the derelict Birubi resort. Read more.[http://www.portstephensexaminer.com.au/story/3944913/chinese-bid-a-lifeline-for-birubi-resort/]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LAWYERS for a group of men charged with assaulting two police officers during a wild melee at Shoal Bay in 2014 have referred the matter to the <span class="companylink">Police Integrity Commission</span>, citing -?overt and flagrant breaches of police protocol-? concerning the use of tasers. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3945934/police-taser-use-referred-to-watchdog/?cs=305]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A five-year-old Branxton boy has been hailed a hero after acting swiftly to help his unconscious father who had suffered a motorbike accident. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3945217/heroics-beyond-his-years/?cs=305]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">HEAVY Falls and a 95 per cent chance of rain have forced organisers of two Hunter events to reschedule. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3945124/heavy-rain-winds-for-the-hunter/?cs=303]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A MERGED Newcastle-Lake Macquarie council was in the NSW Government-?s sights months before a review controversially found the councils lacked scale and capacity to stand alone, a report has shown. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3945381/newcastle-lake-marked-for-merger/?cs=305]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PHOTOS, POLL: LOCALS are so pleased a permanent police presence has been reinstated at Morisset that they have taken to phoning and visiting the new station to tell the officers. Read more.[http://www.lakesmail.com.au/story/3943171/morisset-rolls-out-welcome-mat-for-new-police-station-photos-poll/?cs=750]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">YOUNG Novocastrian surfers and skateboarders have responded enthusiastically to news their sports could be elevated to Olympic status. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3945923/olympics-nod-a-game-changer/?cs=305]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A MAN will face court on Friday after an alleged pursuit through Newcastle that culminated in a crash at Minmi on Thursday. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3946207/man-charged-over-newcastle-pursuit/?cs=305]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PHOTOS, VIDEO: HUNTER audiences have been transported on a trip back in time, after students from the region-?s Catholic schools came together for a performance exploring the past 100 years of music. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3944320/swinging-diosounds-travelling-in-time/?cs=305]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PHOTOS: FORMER Central Coast Mariners coach Lawrie McKinna says he wants a senior management role with the Newcastle Jets under prospective new owner Martin Lee. Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3944321/lawrie-mckinna-wants-role-at-jets/?cs=303]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">TONY BUTTERFIELD: IF the Knights need a game-breaking forward to complement and educate their young pack, who should they target for next season and beyond? Read more.[http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3945925/bring-bird-back-home/?cs=306]
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<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Need a national news snapshot first thing? We've got you covered.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? BALLARAT, VIC: A Ballarat pensioner who was nine times the legal blood alcohol limit when he crashed his car last year has been jailed for two months. Kevin McIlvena, 65, blew .432 when he smashed into cars and street signs in August last year. His reading is believed to be the second highest recorded in Victoria. The reading of .432 is the equivalent to at least 20 standard drinks. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? TASMANIA: Tasmanian Labor senator Lisa Singh says money confiscated from criminals should be spent on Tasmanian drug rehabilitation services. A number of parents, services and politicians have spoken this week about the need for a residential rehabilitation service for children and teenagers in Tasmania. No such service exists. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? MAITLAND, NSW: The mother of a 12-year-old girl allegedly murdered by her stepfather following sustained physical abuse has been arrested over the schoolgirl's death. Central Hunter detectives charged the 34-year-old woman with manslaughter on Thursday following an eight-month investigation into the girl's life in the lead-up to her violent death. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? VICTORIA: Victoria Police has backed down on plans to pull officers from Victoria's three major ski resorts this snow season. The emergency services and resort staff working on Falls Creek, Mount Hotham and Mount Buller feared their safety and that of holidaymakers would be put at risk after a late proposal to reduce police presence on the snowfields. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? GRIFFITH, NSW: Ice is cheaper and easier to get in Griffith than cannabis, according to a former drug user who wanted to remain anonymous. The man said the highly potent and addictive drug is selling for about $50 per -?point-? or 0.1 grams. A point of ice is enough to keep users awake for up to three days. Meanwhile, cannabis was about $20 per gram and the effects wore off after a few hours, meaning it was more expensive than ice in terms of -?bang for your buck-?. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? TASMANIA: The government says it-?s close to reaching an agreement with Ambulance Tasmania employees as they start to further ramp up industrial action, but the health union says it-?s yet to hear a word from the government. Premier Hodgman told Parliament the government was involved in a -?typical negotiation process for a new ambulance enterprise bargaining agreement-?. He said the government was working through matters with the Health and Community Services Union, but said additional industrial action was -?not constructive in working towards that goal-?. R&lt;a target="_blank" href="/story/3945924/ambulance-work-bans-extended/?cs=5312"&gt;ead more&lt;/a&gt;.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? PORT MACQUARIE, NSW: The state government calls it -?opportunity-? but local professional fishos are describing it as devastation of the local industry. Under a just-released government plan and outlined in a soon-to-be-sent letter, fishos will be given a number of options to either further invest in the industry or opt out of the industry altogether. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? BENDIGO, VIC: Bendigo cycling groups have thrown their support behind a proposal to legislate a minimum one metre gap between cars and bicycles on Victorian roads, but police remain unconvinced. A number of groups made submissions to a public hearing examining the potential law change, put forward by the Victorian Greens. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? GOULBURN, NSW: A delegation of teachers from Goulburn Jail have met with Member for Goulburn Pru Goward to inform her of problems they argue will result from the axing of teaching positions at the jail. The 10 teachers now employed at Goulburn Jail will be removed early next year and replaced with two clerical staff in Goulburn and one clerk at Berrima, whose jobs it will be to refer inmates onto private education providers, who will then operate in these jails. R&lt;a target="_blank" href="/story/3942729/better-nbn-promised/?cs=305" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 23px;"&gt;ead more&lt;/a&gt;.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? La Trobe University could soon face legal action over its treatment of Safe Schools Coalition co-founder Roz Ward, who it suspended for calling the Australian flag "racist". National Tertiary Education Union Victorian Secretary Colin Long said the union will write to La Trobe demanding that it reinstate Ms Ward and drop misconduct charges. If it does not, the union will launch legal proceedings on Monday. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? Australia is on track to meet official clean energy targets, says Environment Minister Greg Hunt. The rise of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has buoyed investors, Mr Hunt says, as new figures show 18 large-scale wind, solar and biogas projects worth at least $2.2 billion are set to be built. However, the clean energy industry has warned that a surfeit of old, dirty power plants and long-term uncertainty over the renewable energy target continue to challenge investors, and a leading analyst has questioned the veracity of the government's figures. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?Anthony Albanese was ready for most of the knotty questions thrown at him as he pitched for votes outside Summer Hill railway station on a brisk Thursday morning: <b>asylum</b> seekers, housing affordability, the local challenge from the Greens, the live export trade, even China and Tibet. But the one that momentarily threw the veteran campaigner came from two young teens he encountered at a Lewisham coffee shop. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">National weather radar</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">International news</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? EGYPT: Two weeks after EgyptAir flight MS804 crashed over the Mediterranean, searchers have narrowed down the location of one of its black boxes. The plane, which had 66 people on board including three children, crashed on May 19 midway through its flight from Paris to Cairo. An international search effort has so far found only small pieces of debris, parts of seats and luggage, and some human remains. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? INDONESIA: An Indonesian Cabinet minister personally signed a letter guaranteeing an Australian permanent resident accused of poisoning her friend with cyanide will not face the death penalty. Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna Laoly confirmed the Indonesian government had provided written assurance that Jessica Kumala Wongso will not be executed if found guilty. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-? EUROPE: Europe needs to take an Australian approach to stemming the flow of migrant boats, including embracing <b>boat</b> turnbacks, a prominent Conservative politician says, after two vessels recently arrived in the English Channel. The Conservative Party's Daniel Hannan, who is a British member of the <span class="companylink">European Parliament</span>, or an MEP, told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span> Mr Abbott's policy needed to be replicated in the northern hemisphere. Read more.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On this day</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">June 3, 1992: Aboriginal land rights were granted in Australia after a landmark High Court of Australia decision. Mabo v Queensland came after Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo fought for indigenous land rights. The High Court decision overturned the doctrine of terra nullius - "land belonging to nobody". Learn more here:</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A <span class="companylink">beyondblue</span> ambassador has called for farmers to speak up about mental health in the wake of the state-?s dairy crisis.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Victorian Football League player, Wimmera farmer and <span class="companylink">beyondblue</span> ambassador John Sudholz said mental health was indiscriminate, but farmers were often more reluctant to talk about their mental health than others.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?We-?re isolated out here, and people in the country can be a bit more proud and want to do it on their own and get through it by themselves, which is impossible when you-?re down,-? he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?My emphasis has always been that men are not good at talking about what really counts. Rural areas have a strong history of Australian male culture of being macho.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?My own experience was when I was 40, I got sick. I didn-?t know what was wrong and I said I was going to work through it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">-?That attitude among men hasn-?t changed.-? Read more.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Canada a refuge tip</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ELLEN WHINNETT NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>360 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>2 June 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved. </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE government is believed to be considering asking Canada to resettle some of the 1600 <b>asylum</b> seekers in limbo on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Two weeks after Labor raised the possibility of sending <b>asylum</b> seekers to Canada, it’s believed government officials are thinking about whether Ottawa would take some of those intercepted trying to get to Australia by <b>boat</b>.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A source says the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has been making inquiries about whether Canada, under pro-<b>refugee</b> Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, might be a third-country solution.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Asked if Canada was being considered, a spokesman for Immigration Minister Peter Dutton replied: “This government stopped the boats and will not enter into any arrangement that restarts the boats.’’ Earlier this week the Vancouver Sun asked the <span class="companylink">Canadian Government</span> if it was having discussions with Australia, and was told there were no “official’’ talks under way.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“There have been no official talks between Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and the Australian Government to resettle in Canada <b>asylum</b> seekers that are currently under the responsibility of Australia,” Felix Corriveau, a spokesman in the office of Immigration Minister John McCallum, told the paper.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“It would be inappropriate to make further comment on the election platforms or proposed policies of political parties during the Australian election campaign.’’ Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has previously said Australia is working through the Bali Process to resolve the resettlement of those detainees whose claims for <b>asylum</b> had been accepted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Bali Process is a working group of 48 countries and agencies to stop the people smuggling trade between the two countries that chair the process, Australia and Indonesia. Canada is not a member but is a participating country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Trudeau has vowed to settle 25,000 <b>asylum</b> seekers fleeing <span class="companylink">Islamic State</span> brutality in the Middle East, while Australia has vowed to take 12,000.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is possible that a deal could be worked out in which Canada could take some of Australia’s <b>asylum</b> seekers from the Pacific, and Australia could take some of Canada’s mainly Syrian refugees.ellen.whinnett@news.com.au</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>What they said, what they meant</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Tony Walker - Tony Walker is The Australian Financial Review's international editor and a former political editor. </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Poll parley</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph"><pre class="articlePre" >Decoding the debate
Who am I?
What Turnbull said 		Take out Has experience		What Shorten said	Take out Turnbull is out
Came to politics not		of the real world unlike 		Has stood up for		of touch with ordinary
after a career as a		Shorten who has only			working people all	people, has no
political staffer or		ever been a union and	        	his life, been in		understanding of their
union official but  		political heavyweight.			workplaces across	lives and only interested
after a career of  		Knows how business			Australia and		in looking after the
many roles including		works and why business		understands the		interests of the wealthy
business.     			hire workers, why it			pressures facing		and the big end of town.
	                		invests and how the			workers.			
                			economy grows.		

Company tax
What he said       		Take out Shorten does  		What he said 		Take out Ramming
Emphasised the    		not have a credible plan		Company tax cut will	home message that the
company tax cut will		for growth that will			favour big business	Coalition plan is not
be directed at small		create jobs,        			especially the big		aimed at improving on
business which		                         				banks and only		the ground services to
employs 5 million	                            					generate 0.1% growth	ordinary Australians.	
Australians initially                 						in the economy.			
and not to the big                        						Labor will use the		
banks. Says Labor is             						money to increase				
proposing larger                    						funding on education				
taxes on investment.                   						and health.		

Trust	
What he said       		Take out Labor is	        		What he said		Take out Turnbull has
Under previous     		internally divided over    		Turnbull raised		been kite flying on a
Labor government		<b>asylum</b> policy and can’t 		issues of increasing	variety of issues, has
Kevin Rudd  changed		be trusted to hold the			GST to 15% three	failed to annunciate
the <b>asylum</b> seeker		line on this issue	        		months ago, followed	what he stands for and
policy that led to a                						by idea of state		can’t be trusted to
flood of <b>boat</b> arrivals.           						income taxes and		deliver what he has
			                                				corporate tax cut.	promised.</pre>
</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">What a shame that neither leader was pushed for a thorough account of their policies and plans, writes Tony Walker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the day after what was billed as the great television debate of the Australian federal election campaign of 2016, what is left is a mushy residue of what might've been.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Neither Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull nor Opposition Leader Bill Shorten transcended expectations, which were modest in any case.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Creatures of their hidden persuaders repeating focus-group-tested lines, Turnbull and Shorten broke no new ground, added hardly a jot to our knowledge of either themselves or their policies, and remain locked in a confected war that is staggering towards the finishing line on July 2.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">My colleague Laura Tingle, The Australian Financial Review's political editor, asked the most interesting question of the evening and one that millions of Australians would like to have answered, but in the event Turnbull was permitted to slip away.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Mr Turnbull, last September voters were expecting a leader who was going to move politics more to the centre and a leader who would get the country going again. Many feel that you have subsequently abandoned what you believe in and that nothing much has happened since you became Prime Minister?" she asked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull ignored the question and embarked on rehearsed lines designed to distinguish himself from Shorten as someone who had actually had a job, the implication being that the unionist Opposition Leader had not been gainfully employed. This had absolutely nothing to do with the gist of Tingle's question.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moderator Chris Uhlman, the ABC's political editor, made a limp intervention that enabled the Prime Minister to continue to embark on another diversion in which he detached the issue of climate change from the Tingle question while avoiding the substance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australians were thus deprived of Turnbull's explanation of why he had tacked from his centrist convictions on a variety of issues to those of the centre-right of his party, indistinguishable from positions held by his predecessor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This is the question many voters would like answered, and not simply those who may be classified as "progressives" who have been especially disappointed by Turnbull's flaking authenticity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Organisers of a television debate featuring a panel of journalists may view American presidential debate examples in which a strong moderator, either a Jim Lehrer or his successor Gwen Ifill of <span class="companylink">PBS</span> , presides in the full sense of the word, asking probing questions to set up proceedings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Australian viewers were left with the leftovers of stale party positions that differed little from lines repeated ad nauseam on the campaign trail.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull may have prevailed by appearing more fluent on economic issues, and certainly more prime ministerial. This would not be difficult given the alternative.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But it is doubtful the debate will move the pendulum either way, rather serving to add a further layer of unreality to an election campaign in which the real issues of a precarious budgetary situation and an unsustainable debt trajectory are being glossed over.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Thus, Turnbull told us more than once he had a "plan" for "jobs and growth". This involves tax concessions for small businesses and a corporate tax cut over 10 years at a cost of $48 billion,</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My government has set out a national economic plan, every single element of which will create stronger economic growth, and more and better jobs for Australians in the future," Turnbull said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is not clear these sorts of bromides will resonate in an electorate that is understandably concerned about an uncertain economic future, and sense that all is not well.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If there was a distinguishing theme on the evening it was Shorten versus Turnbull on the question of concessions to the "top end of town", as Shorten put it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Opposition Leader's belabouring of this point verged on the tedious and no doubt reflected focus group guidance that people were suspicious of conservative mollycoddling of big business.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hence, Shorten hammered away at the "fairness" issue. This had the added advantage from Labor's perspective of furthering its campaign against the banks and other such institutions, while at the same time purveying a subliminal message that a wealthy Turnbull in his Point Piper mansion is removed from everyday Australians.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In one of their sharper exchanges after Shorten had outlined Labor's plans to increase spending for a "fairer society" Turnbull intervened: "Same old Labor, just spending."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten rejoined: "Same old Liberals - just give tax cuts for the top end of town and let the rest of the people make do with nothing much at all."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">This unedifying exchange reflected a pattern for the evening in which both sides sought to stereotype the other in a way that rendered a disservice to the uncommitted voter who might have anticipated more substance.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It is also not clear this is a prudent Labor line of attack, at least in its crudities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the event that a Shorten government was elected it would be obliged to work closely with business, big and small, to ensure the country gets through what will inevitably prove a testing phase as the benefits of the commodities boom recede, and the tail-end of a property extravaganza slows the construction sector.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On the other hand, declaring war on the "top end of town" for electioneering purposes may serve the purpose of helping to deflect attention from an unsatisfactory economic record in the recent past.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Class warfare politics is - if not the last refuge - a fall-back for a party that is playing a weak economic hand and knows it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At a certain level the disguised messages each leader delivered provided interesting glimpses into the strengths and weaknesses of the respective contenders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In his diversionary response to Tingle's question about the "real Malcolm", Turnbull added an interesting wrinkle.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I came here to <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> at the age of 50 after a career that had many roles, including many in business," he said. "Often in partnership with Lucy, my wife of 36 years. And together what we have done is build businesses, made investments, created jobs."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Reference to his marriage of 36 years was a notable aside and one no doubt designed to contrast his relative marital uxoriousness with Shorten's complicated private life, including two marriages.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then there was the issue of trust and assurances from both leaders that their days of untrustworthiness are behind them. We'll see.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both assassinated leaders of their respective parties. Shorten did so twice - once to Kevin Rudd and once to Julia Gillard. As political assassins go, Shorten has a leg-up on Turnbull since Turnbull has been both hunter and hunted.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And so debate continued on predictable lines with Turnbull providing perhaps his most cogent and persuasive response on the superannuation issue, while undertaking not to initiate further changes in the next <span class="companylink">Parliament</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Disavowing superannuation as a "wealth creation vehicle for the very rich," Turnbull observed: "So with all due respect to those who suggest we are only serving the interests of wealthy Australians, there are many that are unhappy about the changes we have made."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten and Turnbull found themselves in grudging agreement on the subject, Labor having fallen into line with the proposed changes, leaving aside its empty protestations about the government's "retrospectivity" in capping tax-exempt savings.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In reality there is little difference between the two sides beyond Labor's push to have the employers' contribution extended to 12 per cent from the present 9.5 per cent.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not surprisingly, the sharpest exchange occurred on the issue of <b>asylum</b> seekers and their incarceration at offshore locations. This is a clear Labor vulnerability.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull sought to make the most of it, drawing Shorten's strongest intervention of the evening after asserting that people smugglers would be primed "for what happened the last time Labor was in government", thus insinuating Labor would be soft on the issue.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Shame on you Mr Turnbull for what you just said," rejoined Shorten. "Shame on you for giving the people smugglers any hope they could be back in business."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Television viewers might have used the same word "shame" - as in "what a shame" - to describe a debate that failed to rise to the level of what might be anticipated from those bidding to lead the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the end, it was certainly a "shame" that Turnbull was not pushed harder to account for his own course correction since he seized the leadership from Tony Abbott in September last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">We might have learned something useful.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten at long odds but Albo runs dead</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">LEADERSHIP rumblings have begun within the ALP as internal polling shows Bill Shorten will struggle to win the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As some in Labor’s Left have begun discussing what it could mean for the popular Anthony Albanese, the factional warrior would not reveal yesterday whether he still harboured leadership ambitions.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In a sign Mr Albanese (pictured) was moving to head-off any future attacks that he was soft on <b>asylum</b> seekers, he said he stood beside Mr Shorten on <b>boat</b> turn backs, a position he argued against at Labor’s national conference last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Highly-placed Labor and Liberal sources have revealed similar poll findings on Labor’s leadership. While Mr Shorten has boosted Labor’s standing in working-class seats, he has failed to make a dent on the Coalition’s 25 marginal seats, including six in Queensland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Courier-Mail has been told Mr Shorten is failing to cut through in inner city areas, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is more popular, and parts of the electorate do not like the Opposition Leader because of his union links.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor sources acknowledge Mr Shorten is facing an uphill battle to win on July 2, despite recent newspaper polls showing a narrowing between the two major parties.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, who has remained fiercely loyal to Mr Shorten throughout the campaign, is fighting to hold on to his inner-southern Sydney seat of Grayndler.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Under Labor’s Caucus rules, the leadership would be thrown open by Mr Shorten’s resignation, a federal election loss or a 75 per cent vote of no confidence by the Caucus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, who was the rank-and-file’s popular choice for leader in 2013, was asked twice yesterday whether he still had leadership ambitions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I have an ambition to be a Minister in a Shorten Labor Government. That’s my sole ambition,’’ he told Sky News.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A Labor spokeswoman dismissed questions about leadership speculation.“This is plain rubbish being peddled by a desperately divided Liberal Party,” the spokeswoman said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Federal poll - The leader expected to be cannon fodder at the election [has become] a genuine contender.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten calls it his moment of clarity, when the steps he needed to take to be a serious contender for the prime ministership crystalised on a beach on the south coast of New South Wales.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For something different, the Labor leader had taken his family to holiday at Bawley Point, a cosy corner south of Ulladulla and off the Pacific Highway, where the surf is good and mobile coverage patchy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a place frequented by past and present members of the Canberra press pack, and the days between Christmas and New Year are so filled with get-togethers and events that one scribe's offspring has dubbed them "schoolies for adults".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten chatted amiably with one or two familiar faces when he strolled down to the New Year's Eve bonfire on the beach, but otherwise kept his distance. His priority was spending time with wife Chloe and his girls, reading books about war and civil rights and thinking about the challenges ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And who could blame him? Malcolm Turnbull 's political honeymoon had not yet dulled, Shorten's approval ratings were in the basement and all the end-of-year polls showed the Coalition with such a commanding lead that the looming election seemed a forgone conclusion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The last Fairfax Ipsos National Poll, taken in November, had Turnbull with a net approval rating of plus-53, compared with Shorten's minus-28. If Turnbull's 81-point lead was an Australian batting average, only Bradman could beat it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conservative commentators had written Shorten off (with Niki Savva describing him as the worst Labor leader since Arthur Calwell); the comedians were riffing off what Shaun Micallef called his "zingers"; and the colleagues, or a swag of them, were fatalistic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the polls didn't improve come February, they knew the faint murmurings of discontent would escalate into a move to replace him before the election, even though it was months away this was much more difficult under rules introduced by Kevin Rudd .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's last two addresses to his colleagues before the Christmas break had been brave and upbeat, but failed to instil a sense of belief that Labor could do what no opposition has done since 1931: remove a government in a single term. The worst fear of Labor MPs was that they could go backwards after the crushing defeat of 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the first pre-Christmas address, Shorten declared he would not trade a single day of the last almost 1000 as Opposition leader, even the bad ones. "All those experiences have toughened me, and made me a lot clearer about what matters and what doesn't," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I remind him of one of the bad days, an ABC radio interview with Jon Faine, where his meandering response to the most basic of question about what he believed in began: "Well, the Labor Party believes in lots of things …"</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Critics called it a train wreck. He calls it a "shocker", but also a learning experience. "What I learnt was 'don't think aloud'," he tells me during his first expansive interview of the campaign. "There's a difference between a dinner party and a radio interview."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the second caucus address, he said there wasn't a single Labor MP or senator he would swap for someone else.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The comradery we have has forged an alternative government far sooner, I think, than anyone expected," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was one thing, of course, to assert in a pep talk that Labor could not afford the luxury of a two-term strategy to regain government, and take pride in policy development and unity. It is another altogether to convince colleagues and the electorate that a one-term strategy has legs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which brings us back to Bawley Point, where Shorten made three critical decisions that help explain how faction man became running man, and how the leader who was expected to be cannon fodder at the election became a genuine contender.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The most recent Fairfax Ipsos poll shows Turnbull's 81-point approval rating lead of November has shrunk to 16 points; this week's Newspoll has the leaders tied on a satisfaction rating of minus-12; and John Stirton's average of all the May polls shows Labor a whisker in front on the two-party vote. On any measure, Shorten's recovery has been extraordinary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He's a transformed man, and I don't know what to put it down to," says Kim Beazley, who went very close to nipping John Howard's long reign in the bud back in 1998.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The answer is Bawley Point and a capacity to learn from mistakes. "He's grown in the job - as you should," says Bill Kelty, the former ACTU secretary who has been a Shorten mentor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He's become clearer, more articulate, more relaxed and therefore a bit more likeable," says social researcher Hugh Mackay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's first decision at Bawley was to narrow his focus, tighten his answers and direct his attention to those he is seeking to persuade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I thought I can't control what everyone writes about us, I can't control what Turnbull does, but I can invest in what I can influence," he explains.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every answer, at every media event, he resolved, would be directed at those whose trust he is seeking to win, not the media gang in front of him or the talkback host asking the questions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second decision was to continue to rely on those whose advice has served him well over the years, from the policy advisers in his office and frontbench colleagues (especially deputy, Tanya Plibersek, and treasury spokesman Chris Bowen) to wife Chloe, friends in the business community and the likes of Paul Keating and Kelty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've focused a lot more and stopped necessarily asking a million people what they think," says Shorten. The third decision was to shed excess weight and get fit, with an early morning run becoming part of his daily routine. "Losing 10 kilos is the best thing I've done for myself in a while."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first test of the new Bill came early in January, when he returned to work and embarked on a national tour of supermarkets and greengrocers in a campaign against the GST increase that then seemed a certainty. If Shorten was happy with the interactions and the message he conveyed, the general response in the social and mainstream media was derision, especially after he asked one shopper which lettuce she preferred. "Bill Shorten limp as a lettuce," shouted the Daily Telegraph.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vindication came early in February, a few days after Shorten played his first big electoral card of the year by committing to fully fund the decade-long Gonski school reforms. Turnbull formally abandoned any notion of increasing the GST.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five days later, Labor announced one of the bravest policies since Howard's GST, the decision to change negative gearing rules for property purchases. Suddenly, the contest was transformed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That was when they passed the economic momentum over," says Shorten. "That's when their offence went into defence."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than most politicians, Shorten is a confidence player. The other factor that buoyed him is the perception that, rather than pull the Liberal Party towards the centre, Turnbull has been dragged to the Right since toppling Tony Abbott in September. "It's a lot easier to be authentic, and a lot easier to remember your lines, if you are true to who you are, to your values," Shorten says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'm in the fortunate position of leading a party whose values I share. Turnbull leads a divided party. This is one lesson I've learnt: if you can't lead your own party, you can't lead the nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One thing I'm sure about after July 2, is that the Liberal Party will go back to war with themselves, and I think they'd be better off doing it in opposition and really getting it out of their system, than doing it from government and wasting another three years of this nation's life."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not that he underestimates his opponent or the public's desire, expressed in the first months of his prime ministership, for Turnbull to succeed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Turnbull is a very articulate personality who has been in the public eye a very long time, but the funny thing is the things that people like about him are exactly the parts that he's dropped: the republic, marriage equality, climate change, progress, the big picture.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Now he's resorted in this election campaign to calling me nicknames. Is that the best they've got now? You watch him mouthing uncomfortable slogans on refugees and allowing the attack on the migrant history of Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At 49, Shorten is 12 years Turnbull's junior but they have some things in common: both were estranged from one of their parents; both forged reputations as deal-makers; and both have the capacity to charm. "I still like him," Shorten says of his opponent. "I'm not a hater. He, like me, is not very good at running scare campaigns. Tony Abbott can run a scare campaign." Whether this assessment stands up will be tested in the coming weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One advantage Shorten has is that he is battle-hardened, having faced dozens of town hall meetings since becoming Labor leader. He's enjoying himself on the hustings, and it shows.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'll tell you where I get my nourishment from - town hall meetings, talking to people," he says. "If you have individually addressed in Q&A sessions 10,000 people - and I've done more than that - you get a fair idea what they're thinking. What I've also learnt is you don't have to tell everyone everything they want to hear."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His direct style was rewarded in the first People's Forum of the election, when one woman put the case for people being able to access their superannuation to put a deposit on a home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After Turnbull gave an indirect response, Shorten told the woman: "To answer your question very directly, Labor has no plans to allow people to use their super for their housing deposit." The audience of undecided voters gave him a clear win on the night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another advantage Shorten has over the favourite is his underdog status and the low expectations the electorate had of him, especially after Turnbull became PM.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"The expectations were so low that, when he started to deliver, everyone has done a double take and asked, 'Who is this guy?"' says one business figure who declines to be named. "Whereas Malcolm's story is so polished and people had extremely high expectations that the disappointment has been palpable when he failed to meet them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Watching Shorten in the Northern Territory this week, Beazley was struck by the sensitive way Shorten handled Nova Peris' decision to quit politics. "Whether or not they prefer Malcolm Turnbull as PM, my impression is that, increasingly, people can live with the prospect of Bill being PM," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If an unstated message from Turnbull is that he will be less constrained once he has his own mandate from the people, the message from Shorten is that there will be nothing left in the petrol tank come 6pm on polling day. "I don't want to have any view on the night of July 2 that there was something I really wanted to do that I didn't do because I thought maybe there is a better time," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To become prime minister, Shorten has to win a campaign that has another five weeks to run and at least neutralise the Turnbull plan for jobs and growth with one that offers economic prosperity and fairness in equal measure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Fairness and growth are twins; they're not strangers," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"My challenge is, if on election night people know half a dozen things that the Labor Party stands for, we might well win."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aside from Turnbull's capacity as persuader, Shorten will confront a Coalition advertising blitz reminding voters of his role in the dysfunction of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years, his union connections and Labor's record on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals. "They're going to have to rely on TV advertising: refugees, collapsing house prices, the CMFEU running Australia, whatever their brand of nonsense," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"We'll just have to take it on."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Can he win? "We're at 55 seats. We have to win 21, ideally 22, and swings of that size have only happened four times since federation," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"So statistically, based on precedent, it's a very steep climb, but a precedent is only a precedent until something new happens and that becomes the precedent."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The man who would be Prime Minister</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">William Richard “Bill” Shorten</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Born 12 May 1967 (49 years old).</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Educated at Xavier College (Melbourne); <span class="companylink">Monash University</span> (BA/LLB) 1985-1992; Melbourne Business School (MBA) 2001.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">■ Married to Chloe since 2009. The couple have three children. 1994 Joins the <span class="companylink">Australian Workers Union</span> in 1994 as a recruitment officer.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">1998 Becomes AWU state secretary, aged 31.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2006 Gains national profile during the Beaconsfield mine collapse in Tasmania.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2007 Enters <span class="companylink">Parliament</span> as MP for Maribyrnong.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2010 -2013 Holds various roles in the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor Government including Assistant Treasurer, Federal Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and then Workplace Relations & Education.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">2013 Elected Leader of the Opposition beating Anthony Albanese.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was a Christmas epiphany that transformed Bill Shorten into a focussed and fit election contender, writes Michael Gordon.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten calls it his moment of clarity, when the steps he needed to take to be a serious contender for the prime ministership crystalised on a beach on the south coast of New South Wales.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">For something different, the Labor leader had taken his family to holiday at Bawley Point, a cosy corner south of Ulladulla and off the Pacific Highway, where the surf is good and mobile coverage patchy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It's a place frequented by past and present members of the Canberra press pack, and the days between Christmas and New Year are so filled with get-togethers and events that one scribe's offspring has dubbed them "schoolies for adults".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten chatted amiably with one or two familiar faces when he strolled down to the New Year's Eve bonfire on the beach, but otherwise kept his distance. His priority was spending time with wife Chloe and his girls, reading books about war and civil rights and thinking about the challenges ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">And who could blame him?</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull 's political honeymoon had not yet dulled, Shorten's approval ratings were in the basement and all the end-of-year polls showed the Coalition with such a commanding lead that the looming election seemed a forgone conclusion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The last Fairfax-Ipsos National Poll, taken in November, had Turnbull with a net approval rating of plus-53, compared with Shorten's minus-28.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Turnbull's 81-point lead was an Australian batting average, only Bradman could beat it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The conservative commentators had written Shorten off (with Niki Savva describing him as the worst Labor leader since Arthur Calwell); the comedians were riffing off what Shaun Micallef called his "zingers"; and his colleagues, or a swag of them, were fatalistic.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If the polls didn't improve come February, they knew the faint murmurings of discontent would escalate into a move to replace him before the election; even though it was months away this was much more difficult under rules introduced by Kevin Rudd .</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's last two addresses to his colleagues before the Christmas break had been brave and upbeat, but failed to instil a sense of belief that Labor could do what no opposition has done since 1931: remove a government in a single term. The worst fear of Labor MPs was that they could go backwards after the crushing defeat of 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the first pre-Christmas address, Shorten declared he would not trade a single day of the last almost 1000 as Opposition Leader, even the bad ones. "All those experiences have toughened me, and made me a lot clearer about what matters and what doesn't," he says. I remind him of one of the bad days, an ABC radio interview with Jon Faine, where his meandering response to the most basic of question about what he believed in began: "Well, the Labor Party believes in lots of things ..."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Critics called it a train wreck. He calls it a "shocker", but also a learning experience. "What I learnt was 'don't think aloud'," he tells me during his first expansive interview of the campaign. "There's a difference between a dinner party and a radio interview."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the second caucus address, he said there wasn't a single Labor MP or senator he would swap for someone else. "The comradery we have has forged an alternative government far sooner, I think, than anyone expected," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">It was one thing, of course, to assert in a pep talk that Labor could not afford the luxury of a two-term strategy to regain government, and take pride in policy development and unity. It is another altogether to convince colleagues and the electorate that a one-term strategy has legs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Which brings us back to Bawley Point, where Shorten made three critical decisions that help explain how faction man became running man, and how the leader who was expected to be canon fodder at the election became a genuine contender. The most recent Fairfax-Ipsos poll shows Turnbull's 81-point approval rating lead of November has shrunk to 16 points; this week's Newspoll has the leaders tied on a satisfaction rating of minus-12; and John Stirton's average of all the May polls shows Labor a whisker in front on the two-party vote.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On any measure, Shorten's recovery has been extraordinary.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He's a transformed man, and I don't know what to put it down to," says Kim Beazley, who went very close to nipping John Howard's long reign in the bud back in 1998.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The answer is Bawley Point and a capacity to learn from mistakes. "He's grown in the job - as you should," says Bill Kelty, the former ACTU secretary who has been a Shorten mentor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"He's become clearer, more articulate, more relaxed and therefore a bit more likeable," says social researcher Hugh Mackay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shorten's first decision at Bawley was to narrow his focus, tighten his answers and direct his attention to those he is seeking to persuade.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I thought I can't control what everyone writes about us, I can't control what Turnbull does, but I can invest in what I can influence," he explains.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Every answer, at every media event, he resolved, would be directed at those whose trust he is seeking to win, not the media gang in front of him or the talkback host asking the questions.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The second decision was to continue to rely on those whose advice has served him well over the years, from the policy advisers in his office and frontbench colleagues (especially deputy Tanya Plibersek, and treasury spokesman Chris Bowen) to wife Chloe, friends in the business community and the likes of Paul Keating and Kelty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I've focused a lot more and stopped necessarily asking a million people what they think," says Shorten.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The third decision was to shed excess weight and get fit, with an early morning run now part of his daily routine. "Losing 10 kilos is the best thing I've done for myself in a while."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The first test of the new Bill came early in January, when he returned to work and embarked on a national tour of supermarkets and greengrocers in a campaign against the GST increase that then seemed a certainty.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Shorten was happy with the interactions and the message he conveyed, the general response in the social and mainstream media was derision, especially after he asked one shopper which lettuce she preferred.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Bill Shorten limp as a lettuce," shouted the Daily Telegraph.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Vindication came early in February, a few days after Shorten played his first big electoral card of the year by committing to fully fund the decade-long Gonski school reforms.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Then Turnbull formally abandoned any notion of increasing the GST.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Five days later, Labor announced one of the bravest policies since Howard's GST, the decision to change negative gearing rules for property purchases. Suddenly, the contest was transformed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"That was when they passed the economic momentum over," says Shorten. "That's when their offence went into defence."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than most politicians, Shorten is a confidence player. The other factor that buoyed him is the perception that, rather than pull the Liberal Party towards the centre, Turnbull has been dragged to the Right since toppling Tony Abbott in September.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"It's a lot easier to be authentic, and a lot easier to remember your lines, if you are true to who you are, to your values," Shorten says. "I'm in the fortunate position of leading a party whose values I share. Turnbull leads a divided party. This is one lesson I've learnt: if you can't lead your own party, you can't lead the nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"One thing I'm sure about after July 2, is that the Liberal Party will go back to war with themselves, and I think they'd be better off doing it in opposition and really getting it out of their system, than doing it from government and wasting another three years of this nation's life."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Not that he underestimates his opponent or the public's desire, expressed in the first months of his prime ministership, for Turnbull to succeed.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Turnbull is a very articulate personality who has been in the public eye a very long time, but the funny thing is the things that people like about him are exactly the parts that he's dropped: the republic, marriage equality, climate change, progress, the big picture," he says. "Now he's resorted in this election campaign to calling me nicknames. Is that the best they've got now? You watch him mouthing uncomfortable slogans on refugees and allowing the attack on the migrant history of Australia."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">At 49, Shorten is 12 years Turnbull's junior but they have some things in common: both were estranged from one of their parents; both forged reputations as deal-makers; and both have the capacity to charm. "I still like him," Shorten says of his opponent. "I'm not a hater. He, like me, is not very good at running scare campaigns. Tony Abbott can run a scare campaign." Whether this assessment stands up will be tested in the coming weeks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One advantage Shorten has is that he is battle-hardened, having faced dozens of town hall meetings since becoming Labor leader. He's enjoying himself on the hustings, and it shows.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I'll tell you where I get my nourishment from - town hall meetings, talking to people," he says. "If you have individually addressed in Q&A sessions 10,000 people - and I've done more than that - you get a fair idea what they're thinking. What I've also learnt is you don't have to tell everyone everything they want to hear."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His direct style was rewarded in the first People's Forum of the election, when one woman put the case for people being able to access their superannuation to put a deposit on a home.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After Turnbull gave an indirect response, Shorten told the woman: "To answer your question very directly, Labor has no plans to allow people to use their super for their housing deposit." The audience of undecided voters gave him a clear win on the night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Another advantage Shorten has over the favourite is his underdog status and the low expectations the electorate had of him, especially after Turnbull became PM. "The expectations were so low that, when he started to deliver, everyone has done a double take and asked, 'Who is this guy?"' says one business figure who declines to be named. "Whereas Malcolm's story is so polished and people had extremely high expectations that the disappointment has been palpable when he failed to meet them."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Watching Shorten in the Northern Territory this week, Beazley was struck by the sensitive way Shorten handled Nova Peris' decision to quit politics. "Whether or not they prefer Malcolm Turnbull as PM, my impression is that, increasingly, people can live with the prospect of Bill being PM," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If an unstated message from Turnbull is that he will be less constrained once he has his own mandate from the people, the message from Shorten is that there will be nothing left in the petrol tank come 6pm on polling day.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I don't want to have any view on the night of July 2 that there was something I really wanted to do that I didn't do because I thought maybe there is a better time," he says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">To become prime minister, Shorten has to win a campaign that has another five weeks to run and at least neutralise the Turnbull plan for jobs and growth with one that offers economic prosperity and fairness in equal measure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Fairness and growth are twins; they're not strangers," he says. "My challenge is, if on election night people know half a dozen things that the Labor Party stands for, we might well win."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aside from Turnbull's capacity as persuader, Shorten will confront a Coalition advertising blitz reminding voters of his role in the dysfunction of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years, his union connections and Labor's record on <b>asylum</b> seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"They're going to have to rely on TV advertising: refugees, collapsing house prices, the CMFEU running Australia, whatever their brand of nonsense," he says. "We'll just have to take it on."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Can he win? "We're at 55 seats. We have to win 21, ideally 22, and swings of that size have only happened four times since federation," he says. "So statistically, based on precedent, it's a very steep climb, but a precedent is only a precedent until something new happens and that becomes the precedent."</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Parties ignore needs of aspirational voters in outer suburbs at their peril</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CHRIS MITCHELL, CAMPAIGN MEDIA WATCH   </td></tr>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Commentators such as Peta Credlin emphasise the importance of winning the marginal seats</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Coalition’s “jobs and growth” mantra is designed to ­appeal to Coalition voters and business owners. It is also a slow burn that will take time to set in the minds of the aspirational voters who dominate the marginal outer suburban seats of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. These are the people Paul Keating said were the class created by his reforms of the 1980s and 90s. Keating was urging Gillard Labor to appeal to those voters, variously tagged “Howard battlers”, “Tony’s tradies” and Rudd’s “working families”.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten, once the union leader of preference for big business, is not yet targeting ­aspirationals and does not care much for small businesses despite wanting a 25 per cent tax rate for them only a year ago. He is gambling that a giveaway to traditional public sector union members, welfare-dependent Labor voters and those families who receive more in transfers than they pay in tax will give him victory. It is an old-fashioned Labor message and former leader Mark Latham nailed it on Sky News on Tuesday night when he said it was the first time he could remember a Labor leader going to the voters without a plan for growth or improved productivity. Yet it is an easy message and many in the media are buying it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All week Labor’s leaders told voters that silvertail Turnbull was giving tax cuts to big business and the rich and Labor was “making a choice” to save Medicare and boost hospitals and schools. As Paul Kelly argued on Wednesday in The Australian, it is a false choice. Spending on all three has never been higher and bulk billing rates have been rising.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former Tony Abbott chief of staff Peta Credlin summed up the task for Malcolm Turnbull on Monday night’s Bolt Report on Sky News. The national published polling was irrelevant, she told Andrew Bolt who, on his blog and in Thursday’s column in the <span class="companylink">News Corp Australia</span> tabloids, remained fix­ated on any national published polling negatives for the Prime Minister. Credlin said she looked only at marginal seat polling and thought Turnbull needed cut-through in those seats. That meant putting flesh on the bones of “jobs and growth” and turning a slogan into a story for real voters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">John Howard showed everyone how to do it in an interview from Penrith in with Paul Murray on Sky News. Howard was campaigning for Fiona Scott, who a week earlier refused to say if she had supported Turnbull in the Liberal leadership spill. Howard made a very simple link between jobs and growth, revenue rises for government, budget ­repair and a better future for the nation’s children.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Thursday morning Scott Morrison was answering Credlin’s chal­lenge. Growth was essential to budget repair, he told Michael Brissenden on ABC radio’s AM. It was the key to increasing federal tax revenues and the creation of jobs. Growth and jobs had to be driven by the private sector, hence tax cuts for small and medium businesses. It is early days in a long campaign but this is likely to be an ­appealing message to the tradies with kids who dominate the mar­ginals of the capital cities and are the fastest growing group enrolling their children in new outer suburban private schools.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Just as Julia Gillard’s Medicare Gold campaign as health spokeswoman in the Latham 2004 challenge to Howard was initially thought a winner but ended up being treated with suspicion by ­aspirationals who knew there was no such thing as free money, the government needs the slow burn of jobs and growth to morph into doubt about Shorten’s billion-dollar giveaways.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As usual this week, much of the media is misreading the campaign. Those on the Left like Peter Hartch­er calling last Saturday for the real Malcolm Turnbull to ­reveal his inner leftie and Bolt on Thursday demanding the PM harness his inner Abbott are missing the point. Neither progressives nor the conservative Liberal Party membership base will decide this election. Neither group lives in the marginals. Another important point about growth that neither media progressives nor conservatives have been able to understand? At last year’s national reform summit in Sydney hosted by this newspaper and its rival, The Australian Financial Review, stakeholders settled on economic growth as the answer to reform stagnation. This paper has warned for a decade of the need for productivity reform and structural repair of the budget. But it also knew that in the transition from the mining boom, in the face of a collapse in the terms of trade foreseeable a decade ago, a simple throttling of government spending would plunge the country into ­recession. Even the <span class="companylink">Business Council of Australia</span> and the Reserve Bank were on board. This growth line is likely to be more ­potent as July 2 nears ­because it is the only real ­answer to the nation’s problems.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Murray on Paul Murray Live said on Wednesday night that Labor had spent another week talking about the issues the government wanted to discuss. The uproar over the massive overreach by the Treasurer and Mathias Cormann in their Tuesday news conference alleging a Labor $67 billion black hole was an insiders’ folly for the media. Whether the figure was $67bn or $32bn, the voters, largely disengaged, would have been left with only one impression, Murray said: Labor had a big black hole.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By Friday morning on RN, Fran Kelly and Michelle Grattan agreed that even though Labor had been forced by the Cormann-Morrison attack on Labor spending to drop two of its signature “fairness measures” — its school kids bonus and its opposition to the government’s pension assets test — the Coalition was nevertheless still wrong to launch its original black hole attack. Go figure.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In the softening up before pre-polls open on June 14, this is one of a ­series of important suspicions that Liberal campaign director Tony Nutt wants to leave in the minds of voters. The Libs want swinging voters to believe Labor is ­unreformed from the Rudd-­Gillard years on debt, <b>asylum</b>-seekers and, in the remaining weeks, climate change taxes and the party’s relationship with corrupt trade unions. This will be when the negative campaign ads really sharpen. Similarly, the outrage of Brissenden on AM on Thursday and of Fran Kelly and Paul Bongiorno on RN Breakfast about Barnaby Joyce’s comments linking the Gillard live cattle export ban of 2011 with the increase in <b>boat</b> arrivals from ­Indonesia at the same time will have served once again only to ­elevate suspicions in voters’ minds about the 30 Labor candidates who have expressed doubts about their party’s platform. Despite the breathless condemnation of Joyce on the ABC’s The World Today on Thursday, a careful analysis of what the PM said of his deputy’s comments, and the comments themselves on ABC 24 in Goulburn the night ­before, would have picked up the “dog whistle” and care taken with the precise wording by both men.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">One of the political media’s best brains, former Wayne Goss adviser and now Courier-Mail political editor Dennis Atkins, made some good points in an interview with Ray Hadley on Wednesday. Like many of the hostile Liberal base, Atkins believed Turnbull was not a natural at negative politics. The PM preferred his points to be discursive in the way of “eastern suburbs dinner party conversation”. Atkins said Shorten was trying to avoid negative attacks and leaving that work to Chris Bowen and Tony Burke. He ­believed the government would roll out a very negative campaign against Labor on boats with actors and would not seek to turn Turnbull into an attack version of his predecessor.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">By lunchtime Thursday the ABC reported Bowen was confirming Labor would drop the $4.5bn school kids bonus that stumped David Feeney in an interview with David Speers the previous afternoon. This may be a hint Labor has a few tricks left with which to counter-attack on budget repair. Bolt has long suspected Labor may produce a better bottom line than the government. This would feed into Bowen’s accurate critique of the ­Coalition’s failure on budget ­repair since the debacle of the 2014 budget.Much of this slow third week’s reporting focused on howlers by Feeney, who did not seem to know what the schools bonus was and then left his Labor briefing notes behind after a Sky News interview, and Cormann, who mixed up the PM and the Opposition Leader several times in a Canberra news conference on Wednesday. Peter Reith, also on Sky News, took my award for funniest moment of the week when he claimed in all seriousness that Cormann did it deliberately for a laugh.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Fresh start breeds growing success</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>NIGEL AUSTIN SILENT ACHIEVER   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>525 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>62</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THE journey to be named South Australia’s leading horticultural producer has been long and dangerous for Virginia farmer and 4 Ways Fresh chief executive Duy Ly.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Ly fled Vietnam in 1986 when he was seven along with his brother Tam and their parents Dong Ly and Dep Doan.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dong Ly had been a soldier in the South Vietnamese Army, fighting with the United States to stave off the communist insurgents during the Vietnam War.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the war ended in 1975, Mr Ly became a rice grower but the family’s prospects were grim in the communist-controlled nation.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">First, they had their house taken from them when they were caught breaking the night curfew while attempting to flee the country.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Finally, on their ninth attempt at escape, the crowded 15m <b>boat</b> carrying the family and crammed with 52 people, just managed to outrun a police <b>boat</b> and avoid rifle fire to reach the open sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A 10-day sea voyage followed when the main engine failed and they virtually ran out of food and water and had their gold and valuables stolen. They finally landed in Malaysia where they spent a year in a <b>refugee</b> camp before starting a new life in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My brother and I went to school in Virginia every day, while our parents worked for Italian and Greek market gardeners, learning the trade,” Duy Ly said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Then, they started renting properties until the early 1990s when they bought land and started building greenhouses.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We now own four properties at Virginia and we’re expanding to Geraldton in Western Australia to grow produce in winter when we can’t grow it here.” When Duy Ly left university with a degree in engineering he returned to the family business, becoming chief executive of 4 Ways Fresh and determined to build a structure that would last for many years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The first 10 years was very hard with my brother and I working up to 20 hours a day until about three years ago when the business started to stabilise,” he said. “When you’ve been to rock bottom and get an opportunity you have to make the most of it.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Duy Ly then started to take on community roles including serving as president of the Vietnamese Farmers Association of South Australia for the past two years to help his fellow growers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">4 Ways Fresh grows cucumbers, capsicums, tomatoes, eggplants and zucchinis, owns 15ha of greenhouses in Virginia and Geraldton, and includes a large wholesaling operation marketing products for up to 80 growers around Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Duy Ly said the business employed about 35 people, but had become very hi-tech, with all the watering and feeding of plants in Geraldton controlled from Virginia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Its success has led to Duy Ly being awarded the AUSVEG SA Grower of the Year Award.“It was a bit flattering to win the award because it’s not something you set out to achieve and I was quite proud,” said Duy Ly, who is in the running for the national grower of the year award next month.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten offers hope to refugees - once he wins the election</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Gordon   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>595 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>28 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Age</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>AGEE</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.theage.com.au[http://www.theage.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ELECTION 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has vowed to take the first step to resettle refugees in limbo on Nauru and Manus Island on the day he is sworn in as prime minister, if he wins the July 2 election.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Labor leader says one of his first acts as prime minister would be to re-engage the <span class="companylink">United Nations <b>refugee</b> agency</span> in identifying resettlement countries for around 2000 <b>asylum</b> seekers who have been held against their will on the islands for three years.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I will be sending [immigration spokesman] Richard Marles on the day we are sworn in to Geneva," Mr Shorten told <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. "I cannot believe that we are so inept that we couldn't have negotiated resettlement arrangements for 2000 or 3000 people in the last three years. I just don't buy it."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The UNHCR's regional representative, Thomas Albrecht, said the agency would welcome any constructive conversation around "the humanitarian imperative" of finding a way forward for those on Nauru and Manus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Mr Albrecht stressed that securing an outcome would depend on the attitude of potential resettlement countries.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After visiting both sites last month, the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> expressed alarm at the "immense harm" being done to the physical and mental health of the <b>asylum</b> seekers and called for them to be "immediately moved to humane conditions with adequate support and services".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"These people have already been through a great deal, many have fled war and persecution, some have already suffered trauma," the agency reported. "Despite efforts by the governments of Papua New Guinea and Nauru, arrangements in both countries have proved completely untenable."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton maintains the only settlement option for those on Nauru is Cambodia and those on Manus Island can either settle in Papua New Guinea or return to their home country, where refugees would risk persecution. The Coalition is pushing <b>asylum</b> seeker policy as a key election issues, accusing Labor of being "hopelessly divided" on the issue and weak on border protection.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Shorten says there is overwhelming support among Labor MPs and candidates for Labor's policy of offshore processing centres and turning back boats when safe to do so - and that the key concern is the plight of those on Nauru and Manus.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">While maintaining the centres are a deterrent to future arrivals, Mr Shorten says Labor would have much more stringent oversight of their operations and remove penalties for whistleblowers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I genuinely believe that onshore processing of people who come by <b>boat</b> leads to fatal consequences," Mr Shorten said in an exclusive interview with <span class="companylink">Fairfax Media</span>. "I cannot go with the argument that some in the left have that it doesn't matter how they [<b>asylum</b> seekers] get here, you just worry about them once they are here. But that does not condone the lazy languishing over three years of people stuck in detention."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Marles intends to engage the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> in identifying countries with established resettlement programs to take those on Nauru and Manus, such as the USA, Canada and Scandanavia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He has ruled out any of those on Nauru and Manus being resettled in Australia, saying this would "become a significant encouragement to people smugglers"; suggested New Zealand is not an option; ruled out Cambodia as a resettlement country; and is open to an agreement with Malaysia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor would increase funding to the <span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> to $450 million, increase <b>refugee</b> intake to 27,000 over 10 years and restore references to the convention in legislation.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>DEATH VOYAGE</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>454 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THESE are the horrifying images which show why Australia cannot back away from its uncompromising <b>boat</b> policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 600 terrified refugees clung for life by their fingertips as their illegal <b>boat</b> capsized and sunk off the coast of Libya. Five died, and another 562 were rescued by the Italian Navy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The heavily overloaded fishing <b>boat</b> flipped after desperate migrants ran to one side when they saw the Italian vessel, which had been sent to rescue them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The graphic images show what more than 1000 <b>asylum</b> seekers, who drowned at sea, endured during the Labor years when more than 800 boats made the illegal journey to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last night told The Daily Telegraph the images showed why the government was so committed to its controversial turnback policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These are distressing images on the Mediterranean,’’ he said. “They are images all too familiar to Australians. The government will continue to combat people smugglers in our region who seek to take advantage of vulnerable people.” Stopping deaths at sea is a driving factor behind why moderate Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been so strong on border security since he took the nation’s top job in September last year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has pledged to continue the tough turnback policy should they win government, but have been bitterly divided on the issue, especially among left-wing candidates who believe refusing to accept illegal immigrants is inhumane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton (left) said he was confident Australians put a priority on people not dying at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t think they want to see deaths at sea. They don’t want to see kids in detention,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Italian Navy released the disturbing images from the Mediterranean yesterday. The Italian navy said its patrol <b>boat</b> had spotted “a <b>boat</b> in precarious conditions off the coast of Libya with numerous migrants aboard” but the trawler overturned “due to overcrowding”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The patrol <b>boat</b> threw life-rafts and jackets to those in the water while another navy ship in the area sent a helicopter and rescue boats.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to the <span class="companylink">International Organisation for Migration</span> , more than 1370 migrants have died so far this year attempting the risky crossing to Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The latest arrivals bring the number of people rescued and transferred to Italy since the start of the year to nearly 40,000 following the rescue of more than 6000 since Monday, according to figures collated by the <span class="companylink">UN</span> ’s <b>refugee</b> agency (<span class="companylink">UNHCR</span> ) and the Italian Coast Guard.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 50,000 people illegally arrived in Australia after former prime minister Kevin Rudd pulled apart the Howard era <b>boat</b> policy.However, under the new regime, Australia has now gone 600 days without a <b>boat</b> arrival.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>VOYAGE OF DEATH</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DANIEL MEERS   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>334 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Daily Telegraph</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>DAITEL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Telegraph3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Copyright 2016 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THESE are the horrifying images which show why Australia cannot back away from its uncompromising <b>boat</b> policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Almost 600 terrified refugees clung for life by their fingertips as their illegal <b>boat</b> capsized and sunk off the coast of Libya. Five died, and another 562 were rescued by the Italian Navy.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The heavily overloaded fishing <b>boat</b> flipped after desperate migrants ran to one side when they saw the Italian vessel, which had been sent to rescue them.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The graphic images show what more than 1000 <b>asylum</b> seekers, who drowned at sea, endured during the Labor years when more than 800 boats made the illegal journey to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton last night told The Daily Telegraph the images showed why the government was so committed to its controversial turnback policy.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“These are distressing images on the Mediterranean,’’ he said. “They are images all too familiar to Australians. The government will continue to combat people smugglers in our region who seek to take advantage of vulnerable people.” Stopping deaths at sea is a driving factor behind why “moderate” Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been so strong on border security since he took the nation’s top job last September.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Labor has pledged to continue the tough turnback policy should they win government, but have been bitterly divided on the issue, especially among left-wing candidates who say refusing to accept illegal immigrants is inhumane.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Dutton said he was confident Australians put a priority on people not dying at sea.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I don’t think they want to see deaths at sea. They don’t want to see kids in detention,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Italian Navy released the disturbing images yesterday.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More than 1370 migrants have died so far this year attempting the risky crossing to Europe.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The latest arrivals bring the number of people rescued and transferred to Italy since the start of the year to nearly 40,000.Australia has now gone 600 days without a <b>boat</b> arrival.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Shorten, Windsor slam Joyce judgment over cattle ‘insult’</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten has labelled Barnaby Joyce “loose and dangerous’’ over the Deputy Prime Minister’s comments linking the 2011 live cattle export ban to Indonesia with the increasing arrivals of <b>refugee</b> boats in Australia up to late 2013.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">As the Prime Minister said there was no link between people-smuggling and the Indonesian government, the Opposition Leader said: “Is Mr Turnbull ­seriously asking Australians to consider voting for Barnaby Joyce as Deputy Prime Minister?’’ Mr Joyce yesterday moved to clarify his comments made at a rural leaders debate in Goulburn on Wednesday, which was broadcast on the ABC.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Joyce insisted there was a “direct correlation” between the suspension of the trade and subsequent attempts by about 40,000 <b>asylum</b>-seekers to reach Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Obviously it didn’t help our capacity in how we negotiate with a country when we just shut down one of their prime mechanisms of getting protein into their diet,’’ he said. “It doesn’t help when you ­create what they would see as a loss of face because just ­overnight we ban live cattle and they relied on the live cattle trade for so much of the dietary ­requirements especially of their major city ­Jakarta.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I’m not saying this caused the Indonesians to start sending ­people across. I never suggested that. What I did clearly suggest is it made it difficult — it gave a real ­degree of difficulty — in how we negotiate with Indonesia, and after that point we needed all the reason in the world to negotiate with them because 40,000 people made their own arrangement and just arrived here by <b>boat</b>.’ “I’m just stating the bleeding obvious; you don’t want to just basically, what they would determine, insult another country by overnight ceasing the supply of a major requirement of their dietary intake, which is meat.” Mr Joyce said he was “up in ­Indonesia all the time” and got on “very well” with local officials.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
Malcolm Turnbull said he rated ­Indonesian President Joko Widodo “as a good friend’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he said Australia had to ­repair a lot of damage done to ­relations by the previous Labor government “when they ­precipitously and ­suddenly stopped live cattle ­exports to ­Indonesia. That did enormous damage to the cattle ­industry across Australia but it was an ­incredible affront to Indonesia’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Former independent MP Tony Windsor, who is running against Mr Joyce in his seat of New ­England, said the “insult’’ to Indo­nesia “shows he is incapable of holding down a leadership ­position and continues to be an embarrassment to Australia’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“He virtually accused the Indonesian government of deliberately retaliating to the temporary ­export ban by launching <b>asylum</b>-seekers towards Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“This shows poor judgment and risks future live export quotas and other trade-related activities with Indonesia,’’ Mr Windsor said.Former Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa ­dismissed as “patently false” any suggestion of a link between the live cattle trade suspension and the flow of <b>asylum</b>-seekers.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A global crisis involving sick children, furious distributors and a product recall nearly derailed Manny Stul’s Moose Enterprises. But the Shopkins juggernaut saved him – and pushed him onto the BRW Rich 200.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Lippy Lips, Taco Terrie, Missy Pressy, Cheeky Cherries and Kookie Cookie. These are the names of just a few of the hundreds of small plastic figurines loved by millions of girls aged four to 11 around the world. They are figurines that have made Melbourne entrepreneur Manny Stul an extremely successful – and very, very wealthy – man.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Shopkinsis a global phenomenon that has Stul and his Moose Enterprises toy business taking on the biggest names in the toy world– and beating them. All from a quirky warehouse in an otherwise humble industrial estate in suburban Melbourne.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More Shopkins have been sold over the past 18 months than Barbies, Lego and My Little Pony – albeit at much lower unit price points, with Shopkins selling for between $3 for two to $12 for a dozen, with special sets costing more. Moose Toys, as it trades, claims to have sold more than 240 million characters across 80 countries since January 2015. This has made Moose the fourth-biggest toy company by sales volume in both the United States and Australia, behind giants <span class="companylink">Mattel</span> , <span class="companylink">Hasbro</span> and Lego, according to America’s <span class="companylink">Toy Industry Association</span>.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Shopkins Small Mart toy, which includes figurines, a playset and trolley, was named the 2015 Girl Toy of the Year by the <span class="companylink">Toy Industry Association</span> and so far this year various Shopkins lines account for a staggering 15 of the 16 top-selling girls-toy lines in the US, as little girls collect the figures to play with and swap with their friends.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sitting in his office in a purpose-built warehouse in Moorabbin, about 15 kilometres south-east of Melbourne’s CBD, with a giant treehouse “growing” up from reception to the second floor, Stul reflects on the rollercoaster ride that led to the Shopkins boom.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The numbers are staggering, incomprehensible; I love getting up in the morning and coming here,” says the 67-year-old, who debuts on the BRW Rich 200 this year at number 39 with wealth of $1.2 billion.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stul shares the company’s leadership and ownership with wife and Moose director Jacqui Tobias and step-son Paul Solomon , his co-chief executive. Stul acquired Moose in 2000 when, having sold the company he founded, Skansen, the semi-retiree was looking for something else to do. The purchase necessitated a move from Perth, where he had lived during the Skansen years, to Melbourne, where with a staff of about 10, Moose was importing and distributing a small range of traditional toys such as hoola hoops, generating annual revenue of about $4 million.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moose’s revenue reached about $600 million this year, mainly due to the popularity of Shopkins products. Working conditions at head office are akin to those enjoyed at the technology businesses that regularly feature on lists of best places to work. Employees have access to a yoga teacher, an organic vegetable garden and gymnasium, while regular motivational speakers are brought in to address staff.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Any idea that pops into my head, we’ll do,” Stul says. “All that stuff, the staff know you’re doing it for them. And you care for them and look after them.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stul believes he’s hit upon a formula that mixes strict ethics and aggressive business expansion strategies.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The one thing I learnt very early on is to never lie, never try and put one over people. You can always get caught out,” he says. “And I really believe that once you lose somebody’s trust, you never get it back.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Shopkins success almost didn’t happen. In the late 2000s Moose was on the verge of collapse over a stunning situation involving a chemical used in a date rape drug that was substituted without Stul’s knowledge into another award-winner, the craft toy Bindeez . The result was litigation and a worldwide product recall amid negative headlines . The company survived only after an extraordinary 34 individual deals were struck with creditors and distributors over 10 tense days in late 2007.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stul’s history of fortuitous timing extends to his arrival in Australia in December 1950. At only seven months old, he and his Polish World War II <b>refugee</b> parents were bound for Melbourne. But a decision was made by authorities for the <b>boat</b> to finish its journey in Perth so that the vessel’s occupants could be counted in that year’s census.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">With neither parents able to speak English and no family in Australia, the Stuls were sent to a camp in wheat-belt country about 100 kilometres north of Perth. A few years later they moved to Perth, sharing a house with three other migrant families near where Stul’s father worked as a cabinet maker.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“My parents were no different from a lot of migrants,” Stul recalls. “They both had a very strong work ethic and were very moralistic and clear cut about what’s right and wrong.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When Stul was seven the family moved into their own house in north Perth. Despite his parent’s influence, Stul disliked school; he describes himself as “quite rebellious”. At 15 he won a scholarship to an advanced school, only for the funding to be withdrawn. He left school and worked for about a year as a bank teller, before deciding there was opportunity to be found in the gift sector.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In order to save money to start a business, Stul moved to northern WA and worked on a construction site for about 15 months. “It was a very fast introduction to the adult world and very tough. There was nothing to do but drink, very few women. A lot of blokes blew their money on grog and buying rounds of drinks. I fell into that trap for the first few weeks, but stopped and then it was just head down, bum up.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After moving back to Perth, Stul came across a cutlery set that impressed him. “It was a Scandinavian design, and I liked that clean, simplistic design. That led me into looking at homeware and giftware; that’s the reason I started importing from Scandinavia.” When Stul founded the company in 1974, aged 25, his love of the region led him to calling it Skansen, after a historical area of the Swedish capital Stockholm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was determined to overcome the difficulty of running a national business from Perth. Stul says working from the world’s most isolated capital forced him to be innovative in terms of the products he imported and distributed, be it classy giftware or novelty products, something that stood him in good stead as the world went into recession in the mid-1970s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I came up with the idea of a belly button brush for the man who had everything. It was just a little, simple, plain quality box and when you flipped it open, inside was a belly button brush,” he says. “All it was, was a high quality paint brush. As ridiculous as it gets, I sold an enormous number of them. So I came to the conclusion that, when things are bad, people buy cheap, fun stuff to brighten up their day. I still believe that wholeheartedly.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Skansen grew steadily and by the time Stul floated the business on the <span class="companylink">ASX</span> in 1993 it had annual revenues of about $20 million, including divisions for calendars, cards and confectionary. Stul stayed on for another couple of years before he was bought out by Canberran George Snow, brother of BRW Rich 200 member Terry Snow . “I had no idea what I was going to do but I knew it wasn’t going to be … running a giftware company any more.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After messing about with a couple of businesses, including an organic farm, and undertaking a spiritual journey to India, in 1999 Stul went to Israel to investigate potential investment opportunities in businesses being developed in government-funded incubators. These were set up in the 1990s in part for the talented Russian Jews who had immigrated to Israel.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I saw the first 3D printers, which were incredibly slow, but the technology was amazing. I was so amazed by the solar panel technology, so far advanced. A lot of the stuff they were doing was well ahead of its time,” he says. “I was seriously looking at getting involved but then I got a phone call saying there’s this toy company in Australia and would I be interested in investing. So I said yeah, send me the details.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">About 400 pages were faxed to Stul’s hotel, but the print was so small he couldn’t read it properly. Instead, his accountant brother-in-law conducted due diligence. He, Stul and another investor decided to buy Moose from its small group of founders. Stul was to be chairman with no day-today responsibilities. That didn’t last.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ultimately we changed all the staff ...</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">the systems, the way we operated, the way we related to people, the way we handled overseas people.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">After a few tough years, Moose had a breakthrough with its Mighty Beanz jumping beans toy. In 2004 annual revenue hit $43 million. Stul was by then joined by Tobias and Solomon, the latter who had previously worked for skate-wear brand <span class="companylink">Globe International</span> . The trio moved production and manufacturing to China. Moose started humming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Solomon worked tirelessly to develop relationships with the big department stores in the US and more success followed, particularly with Bindeez.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Named Australian toy of the year in early 2007 , Bindeez – known as Aqua Dots in the US– contained a craft kit that allowed children to create various designs or mosaics which were then fixed in place when sprayed with water. Previous bead products had to be baked in order to stay in place, and the ease of Bindeez by comparison made it a huge hit internationally.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But on Melbourne Cup day in 2007, disaster struck. Stul was in Perth visiting family when he received a phone call informing him that a child had been hospitalised after swallowing some Bindeez beads. Another case developed. A Sydney biochemical geneticist discovered the link between the illness and ingestion of the beads after similar symptoms were found in two children ill at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Once ingested, the beads released a chemical related to gamma-Hydroxybutyrate or GHB, the banned rave party and date rape drug. Unbeknownst to Stul and his management, the Chinese factory making Bindeez had, in an effort to save money, switched ingredients from a non-toxic substance to one that became GHB when mixed with saliva and water.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stul found himself in a fully-blown global crisis, one involving the previously unheard of combination of party drugs, outsourced manufacturing in China and injured children. Health authorities around the world swiftly banned the product and there was an immediate worldwide recall of 40 million Bindeez or Aqua Dots kits, which Stul suspects is the biggest toy recall in history. The Chinese government banned exports from all the factories making Moose products.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moose’s international distributors were baying for blood, legal cases were pending and Stul feared he was ruined.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Later it emerged that an 18-month-old toddler in Arizona had suffered loss of fine motor skills and brain damage after swallowing the beads. The child’s family was awarded $US435,000 in damages , with Moose apportioned 33 per cent of the liability under US law. Distributor Spin Masterwas fined $US1.3 million for not acting with due speed to alert authorities.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Other cases were settled out of court.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“The advice we were given was to just go into voluntary administration,” Stul recalls.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“We couldn’t overcome it, it was just impossible. The money was enormous. We had all these American insurance companies coming after us, because the payouts were going to be huge. Our distributors were furious, as you could imagine.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But he refused to go under. Instead, Stul engaged well-known Melbourne lawyer Leon Zwier . What followed was a high risk, high reward strategy which staved off collapse and set Moose back on the path towards success. Thirty-four separate deals with creditors had to be struck. If one refused to accept the terms, the company would be gone.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">On Zwier’s recommendation, Stul called in advisory firm <span class="companylink">Ferrier Hodgson</span>, which undertook a two-week investigation. It found that if Moose went under, its creditors would likely receive about 3¢ for every dollar owed. Zwier’s pitch was what he terms “legal investment banking”: Moose would offer the creditors 15¢ per dollar, payable over three years at a rate of 5¢ a year. The distributors, if they believed in Moose’s next range of toys, would also get a 10 per cent discount for three years. The idea was that this would enable them to get back a substantial portion of what they’d lost.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Zwier, Stul and his management team flew to Hong Kong for a toy fair where all the distributors happened to be, and spent 10 days locked in tense negotiations. “It was the most depressing and most oppressive environment you can walk into,” recalls Stul.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The strategy was to admit all wrongdoing and present each creditor with a comprehensive recovery plan. “I would walk in and say to them we admit full consequential liability and we are 100 per cent not going to argue liability,” Stul says. “That took the heat out of a lot of it.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Given that it would take only one creditor to disagree with the strategy for the entire situation to unravel, the 10 days were agonising. Zwier says the group returned to the hotel exhilarated each evening after a day of positive discussions, in the full realisation that another vital day full of tough negotiations lay ahead.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">All 34 creditors eventually agreed to the deal.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Ultimately, every single one of them signed,” says Stul. “We said, ‘Yes wrong has been done, yes you’ve lost money but here is the reality of it and here is us showing we are not hiding any money and here is what is going to happen.’ It was absolutely brilliant.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stul had to start selling toys again – and quickly. That meant convincing a myriad of health authorities that Moose’s products were safe, beginning with NSW, a state that had never lifted a ban in less time that 18 months. He imposed a system whereby Moose batch tested all products and reverse engineered products at random. Stul started personally vetting all invoices.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He was able to get the NSW ban lifted, with the NSW health minister moving to ban the chemical that turned into GHB rather than continuing the Bindeez ban. Other states quickly fell into line.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The product was relaunched as Beados in Australia in March 2008 , and as Pixos in the USlater in the year. A bitter tasting non-toxic chemical called Bitrex was added to discourage children from swallowing the beads. Stul had to make personal guarantees to health authorities in order get his toys on back on the market. “And those personal guarantees included, if anything happened like that again with that product there would be criminal charges.”</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The whole torturous business had cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in sales and a few years of struggle ensued.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Sales started growing again however and in the past few years, sales have essentially trebled. Distributors and big US chains such as Target and Toys ‘R’ Us are now clamouring for Moose products. The company has gained crucial shelf space in all the big toy and department stores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Those who believed in Stul have been rewarded for their loyalty. “The distributors that have stuck with us all the way have ended up making their money back several times over,” Stul says.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Aside from winning a swag of retail awards, Stul was last year named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Australia . He will compete for the world title in Monaco in June. The success of Beados has been followed by the popular Trash Pack series, Little Live Pets, The Ugglys Pet Shop and The Zelfs . But the Shopkins range has outshone them all. A new series is due for release later this year.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Stul says Moose’s near-death experience is the perfect antidote to any possible hubris. “There would be something wrong with you not to be aware of what can happen in a twinkling of an eye.”</p>
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MALCOLM Turnbull and Julie Bishop have been forced to calm a diplomatic storm after Barnaby Joyce implied Indonesia vengefully sent ­<b>asylum</b> seekers to Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Treasurer Scott Morrison and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann were also sent to mop up yesterday after the Deputy Prime Minister linked Labor’s 2011 cattle export ban to dramatic numbers of <b>asylum</b> seekers leaving Indonesia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The Prime Minister strongly dismissed any link and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop ensured the diplomatic message reached her counterpart, Arrmanatha Nasir.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Indonesia sought immediate clarification.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The furore was sparked when Mr Joyce told a regional leaders’ debate on Wednesday night: “Might I remind you that when we closed down the live animal export industry, it was around about the same time that we started seeing a lot of people arriving in boats in Australia.’’ Mr Turnbull said he wanted to be clear there was no link.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Ms Bishop also released a statement saying: “The Australian Government does not believe there is any link.”Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said Mr Joyce’s comment was “rubbish”.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>PULSE OF THE POLL</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>219 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>27 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>ADVTSR</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Advertiser</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>18</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">DAY 19 36 TO GO WHAT THE LEADERS DID Malcolm Turnbull was in northern Queensland visiting a cattle station and sweet potato farm.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Bill Shorten was in Darwin, in the marginal seat of Solomon, held by Country-Liberal MP Natasha Griggs by 1.4 per cent.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">PLEDGE SPENDOMETER COALITION &gt;&gt; $150 million to fast-track the feasibility assessment and construction of water infrastructure across Queensland.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">COALITION SO FAR: $699.5 m ALP &gt;&gt; $10 million towards a learning and leadership centre run by AFL legend Michael Long.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ALP SO FAR: $7.963 bn</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">THEY SAID IT "No matter what animosity that might be seen on the airwaves between Mr Depp and myself, I have always hoped and wish the very best for people.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">- Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce on the marriage break-up of his nemesis, Johnny Depp.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">I’m just stating the bleeding obvious.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">- Barnaby Joyce about the link he drew between a temporary ban on live cattle exports and an increase in <b>asylum</b>-seeker <b>boat</b> arrivals from Indonesia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">BLUNDER OF THE DAY Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce screeched “Michael” 11 times, trying to get the attention of a local Queensland journalist and put off the Canberra press pack.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SPORTSBET ODDS Capricornia Labor (Leisa Neaton) $1.28 Coalition (Michelle Landry) $3.50Any other $26.00</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Joyce links <b>boat</b> arrivals to Indonesian live cattle ban</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Michael Koziol - Political reporter   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>368 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>The Sydney Morning Herald</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>SMHH</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>First Drop-in</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 Copyright John Fairfax Holdings Limited.   www.smh.com.au[http://www.smh.com.au]   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Election 2016</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has linked the 2011 suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia with a rise in the number <b>asylum</b> seeker boats that arrived in Australia.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Implying that the Indonesian government could have been responsible for dispatching <b>asylum</b> seekers to Australia, Mr Joyce said the decision to halt live exports was "disastrous".</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Might I remind you that when we closed down the live animal export industry, it was around about the same time when we started to see more people arriving on boats in Australia," he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The statement was howled down by many audience members at a regional leaders' debate in Goulburn on Wednesday night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Host Chris Uhlmann, Greens leader Richard Di Natale and shadow agriculture minister Joel Fitzgibbon, all seemingly shocked, pressed Mr Joyce to clarify his remarks.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"Do you realise that you are suggesting that the Indonesian government then unleashed the boats in response?" Uhlmann asked.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">"I think it's absolutely the case that we created extreme bad will with Indonesia when we closed down the live animal export industry," Mr Joyce replied. "I think that our capacity to have a strong working relationship with Indonesia is affected by them relying on us to be reliable suppliers."</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The exchange came amid a fractious debate about live cattle exports, which Julia Gillard's Labor government suspended in June 2011 after shocking images of animal abuse on the ABC's Four Corners.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">According to Parliamentary Library figures, 4940 <b>asylum</b> seekers arrived by <b>boat</b> in 2010-11, increasing to 7983 in 2011-12 and 25,173 in 2012-13.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Joyce said the live cattle export halt caused "absolute financial disaster across the north of Australia". Mr Fitzgibbon gave an assurance it would not happen again under a future Labor government, saying there had since been regulatory improvements.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But Senator Di Natale recommitted his party to ending all live animal exports, arguing the welfare of animals could not be guaranteed once they left our shores.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The leaders' debate canvassed several issues, including coal seam gas, phone and internet coverage and the plight of dairy farmers.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>People smugglers look for Labor win</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>282 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Gold Coast Bulletin</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GCBULL</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>GoldCoast</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">AUSTRALIAN officials and contacts in Indonesia have detected a sharp increase in chatter from people smugglers advising <b>asylum</b> seekers to be ready to take boats should Labor win the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The revelations come as Labor last night confirmed it would abolish the Howard era Temporary Protection Visas which ensure illegal arrivals do not have a path to permanent residency.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told the Bulletin the abolition of TPVs would ensure boats start within weeks of a Shorten government being elected.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker, who has been stranded in Indonesia since a failed <b>boat</b> journey in 2013, revealed the Australian election was a major talking point among his network.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“All of them are watching,” he said. “They remember who was PM, and which one was good for them. Yes, they believe if Labor (wins) they can go by <b>boat</b> again.” Mr Dutton said the abolition of TPVs would have people smugglers “jumping for joy.” “People smugglers will be jumping for joy to hear a Shorten government would abolish TPVs,’’ he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Just when I thought Labor couldn’t get any weaker on border protection they confirm TPVs will be abolished.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“That single decision will guarantee boats within weeks of a Shorten government being elected.” Labor last night claimed TPVs were irrelevant because nobody would be settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Labor’s policy is clear, nobody arriving by <b>boat</b> will be resettled in Australia,’’ a spokesperson for Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said.Despite a close watch on the Australian elections, a senior official said <b>asylum</b> seekers would only start boarding vessels if the turnbacks policy ended. That is not part of Labor’s plan.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Bullish Barnaby claims cattle export ban launched a fleet of <b>asylum</b> boats</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>PAUL TOOHEY JASON TIN JESSICA MARSZALEK   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>326 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Courier Mail</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>COUMAI</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>CourierMail3</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A RUSH of <b>asylum</b> seeker boats to Australia was linked to Labor’s live cattle exports ban by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce last night.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“Might I remind you that when we closed down the live animal export industry, it was around about the same time that we started seeing a lot of people arriving in boats in Australia,” he told a regional leaders debate in Goulburn.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">When the debate moderator, ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann, put it to him that he was suggesting the Indonesian Government “unleashed the boats” in response to the exports ban, Mr Joyce did not back off.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“I think it’s absolutely the case that we created extreme bad will with Indonesia when we closed down the live animal export industry,” he said.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Meanwhile, officials and contacts in Indonesia have detected a sharp increase in chatter from people smugglers advising <b>asylum</b> seekers to be ready to take to boats should Labor win the election.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">The revelations come as Labor last night confirmed its plans to abolish temporary protection visas, which ensure arrivals do not have a path to permanent residency. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton (pictured) said the move would have people smugglers “jumping for joy”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">An Iranian <b>asylum</b> seeker, stranded in Indonesia since a failed <b>boat</b> journey in 2013, revealed the Australian election was a major talking point.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“All of them are watching,” he said. “They remember who was PM, and which one was good for them. Yes, they believe if Labor (wins) they can go by <b>boat</b> again.” Labor last night claimed TPVs were irrelevant because nobody would be settled in Australia.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A senior official said <b>asylum</b> seekers would only start boarding vessels if the turnbacks policy was ended. That is not part of Labor’s plan.“There is increased talk … but we haven’t seen any increased activity,” he said.</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Way ahead is to act like Abbott</span>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>BY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Andrew Bolt   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>WC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>809 words</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PD</b>&nbsp;</td><td>26 May 2016</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SN</b>&nbsp;</td><td>Herald-Sun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>SC</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HERSUN</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>ED</b>&nbsp;</td><td>HeraldSun</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>PG</b>&nbsp;</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>LA</b>&nbsp;</td><td>English</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>CY</b>&nbsp;</td><td>© 2016 News Limited. All rights reserved.   </td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">
MALCOLM Turnbull’s popularity was always going to sink like a stone. A Leftist leading the Liberals would please no one in the end.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">So I cannot understand why the plotters who made him Prime Minister eight months ago didn’t see this coming.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But I understand their panic. After all, this week’s Newspoll didn’t just put Turnbull’s Coalition behind Labor for the fourth straight survey.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Worse for Turnbull was that Mr 60 per cent last November is Mr 38 per cent now, disliked by three million voters who approved of him just months ago.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But a caveat. Yes, the Liberals are behind Labor in the national polls, but so far the swing to Labor isn’t happening in the marginal seats it needs to win.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Liberals won’t win as handsomely as Turnbull once imagined and in the way his media backers stupidly assumed — by dragging the Liberals to the Left.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Hear journalists now shout: “Let Malcolm be Malcolm!” But Turnbull is best when he’s actually being Abbott — smashing Labor on <b>boat</b> and <b>refugee</b> policies and its mad spending.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That’s what damaged Labor’s campaign in the first two weeks. And that is what’s breaking the heart of the media Left that cheered Turnbull into the job.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Typical was the Sydney Morning Herald’s political editor, Peter Hartcher, who blames Turnbull’s decline on his failure to release his inner Leftist.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Instead, mourned Hartcher: “To keep faith with his party’s conservative elements, he broke faith with much that the Australian people expected from him.” Actually, Peter, Turnbull broke the faith invested in him by Leftists just like you who somehow believed Turnbull could and should turn the Liberals into Labor-lite.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">You guys cheered his destruction of the conservative Abbott and then ... oh dear, watched appalled as the Liberal Party kept being the Liberal Party, tough on illegal immigrants, not crazy on global warming and cautious on same-sex marriage.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">If Turnbull really let “Malcolm be Malcolm” on those issues, he’d start a riot in his party. In fact, it’s already clear that what could yet cost Turnbull the election is Turnbull indulging his inner Leftist and outraging the Liberal base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That anger is hot enough already, thanks to Turnbull running the ultimate marginal seats campaign.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">His pollster, Mark Textor, put the strategy neatly last year in dismissing the traditional Liberal base: “The qualitative evidence is they don’t matter,’’ he said. “The sum of a more centrist approach outweighs any alleged marginal loss of so-called base voters.’’ The view, put bluntly, is that such voters have nowhere else to go. Their preferences will always flow to the Liberals.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But the Liberals are now not merely campaigning for swinging voters more than their supporters. They are campaigning for those swingers at the direct expense of their base.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In fact, you could almost say they are campaigning against their base. For instance: Turnbull’s tax grab on the superannuation of “the rich” is even more punitive than Labor’s.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull refuses to promise big spending cuts beyond those promised by Abbott, making his attacks on Labor’s big spending look hypocritical.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Turnbull promises even higher taxation for the next three years — both in absolute terms and as a proportion of GDP.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Of course, Turnbull is on the other hand maintaining — at least until the election — Abbott’s policies on boats, terrorism and global warming.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He’s also promised tax cuts for business, although we’d have to vote for him at four elections in a row before his final cut is delivered, 10 years from now.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Snubbing conservatives like this has benefits. For one, Turnbull still has the grudging support of many Leftist journalists who believe any enemy of conservatives is a friend of theirs.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But there are also dangers. Liberals frustrated at being taken for granted are adding to the impression of disunity.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Some even refuse to help some marginal-seat MPs they accuse of being disloyal to Abbott — notably Peter Hendy in Eden-Monaro and Fiona Scott in Lindsay.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">More dangerously, many Liberals may vote for minor parties in the Senate that better reflect their values, making the Liberals even more certain to face another hostile Senate.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Moreover, Turnbull is asking for such a weak mandate for change that his post-election government will look infuriatingly weak to supporters.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">That virtually guarantees internal instability after the election, even if Turnbull resists the temptation to finally let “Malcolm be Malcolm”.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">But for now he’s trying to be Abbott, knowing he’ll lose more than the cheers of the Left if he doesn’t.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">ANDREW BOLT HOSTS THE BOLT REPORT ON SKY NEWS LIVE, WEEKNIGHTS AT 7PM</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><b>HD</b>&nbsp;</td><td><span class='enHeadline'>Left bails on <b>boat</b> stance</span>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">SENIOR Labor Left figure Anthony Albanese has strongly endorsed his party’s tough policy on <b>asylum</b> seekers, calling its previous stance on the problem “unsustainable’’.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese, the Opposition transport and infrastructure spokesman, voted against the policy at Labor’s national conference last year, but has maintained the party line.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He also said he “got it wrong’’ last time he was in government, underestimating the “pull factor’’ created by undoing the Howard government’s offshore processing. “You can be tough on people smugglers without being weak on humanity,’’ he told the ABC. “There were issues … I thought that the issue of pull as well as push factors when it came to <b>asylum</b> seekers … I underestimated that. I got it wrong. We had a position that was simply unsustainable.’’</p>
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<tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>LP</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">A LABOR Government would consider asking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accept <b>asylum</b> seekers now held on Manus Island and Nauru.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">In comments that reignited debate between the Government and Opposition over immigration policy, senior Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese suggested refugees who arrived in Australia by <b>boat</b> could be resettled in Canada or New Zealand.</p>
</td></tr><tr><td align="right" valign="top" class="index"><p><b>TD</b>&nbsp;</p></td><td><p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has previously ruled out resettling <b>asylum</b> seekers in New Zealand in case it created a “marketing opportunity’’ for people smugglers.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Both major political parties are opposed to the settlement in Australia of <b>asylum</b> seekers who try to reach Australia by <b>boat</b>. In a TV interview on Monday, Mr Albanese suggested Canada and New Zealand could both be good “third-country” resettlement options for refugees refused entry to Australia. “There are a range of countries that are possibilities. Canada, for example, is an obvious one,’’ Mr Albanese told ABC TV.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Opposition Leader Bill Shorten yesterday backed Mr Albanese, saying more needed to be done to find settlement options for <b>asylum</b> seekers on Nauru and Manus Island found to be genuine refugees.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">“In terms of Canada, it’s an excellent settlement country,’’ Mr Shorten said. “We would certainly make it a priority to negotiate through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and other nations within our region the timely resettlement of people on Manus and Nauru.” Mr Shorten said it was unacceptable for <b>asylum</b> seekers to be held in detention for indefinite periods of time.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Turnbull said Labor was divided over <b>asylum</b> seeker policy and could not be trusted to protect Australia’s borders.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">He said secure borders were needed to ensure harmony in Australia’s multicultural society. Border protection is secure under my Government,’’ he said. “You cannot say the same about Labor. They are divided and they will fail if they come into government again, just as they did under Mr Rudd and Julia Gillard. Mr Turnbull said he had never discussed the possible resettlement of <b>asylum</b> seekers with Mr Trudeau.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese admitted on Monday that he and other Labor minister had got <b>asylum</b> seeker policy wrong during the Rudd/Gillard Government.</p>
<p class="articleParagraph enarticleParagraph">Mr Albanese said Australia needed to be: “tough on people smugglers without being weak on humanity.” Several Labor election candidates have been forced to in recent works to disown past criticisms of tough border protection policies.Labor’s National Conference last year voted to endorse <b>boat</b> turnbacks, despite widespread opposition from within the party’s Left faction.</p>
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